No, not using SynonymFilterFactory. Rather take that as a base for a
custom Filter that
doesn't use any input file. Rather it would normalize any numeric
tokens and inject
as many variants on the spot as you desire.

Best,
Erick

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Todd Long <lon...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Essentially, we have a grid of data (i.e. frequencies, baud rates, data
> rates, etc.) and we allow wildcard filtering on the various columns. As the
> user provides input, in a specific column, we simply filter the overall data
> by an implicit "starts with" query (i.e. 23 becomes 23*). In most cases,
> yes, a range search would suffice until you get to those "contains" queries.
> We are working with strings with the need to properly handle the decimal
> place. I don't know the exact use case where the "contains" query comes into
> play with the numerics but most likely it would have to do with "pattern"
> matching (i.e. knowing a certain sequence where 2*3 might be helpful).
>
> It's easy enough to normalize the user input and perform an OR search with
> the wildcard. I'm just trying to find a way to index the data once that
> allows me to handle the dot zero in both wildcard and regex searches. I
> guess it would be nice to index the numeric as a string without dot zero and
> when performing a search have the input hit against both the whole number
> and dot zero.
>
>
> Erick Erickson wrote
>> You could simply inject "synonyms" without the .0 in the same field
>> though.
>
> Using a SynonymFilterFactory? If so, can this be done dynamically as I won't
> know the "numeric" (I guess we can call them string) values.
>
>
>
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