Hii, You probably lower-case tokens during indexing (LowerCaseFilterFactory). Wildcard queries are not analyzed as non-wildcard ones (this is explained in Lucene FAQ, I believe), so your capitalized Robert doesn't match the lower-cased robert in your index.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Rupert Fiasco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:03:10 PM > Subject: Understanding prefix query searching > > So I tried to look on google for an answer to this before I posted > here. Basically I am trying to understand how prefix searching works. > > I have a dynamic text field (indexed and stored) "full_name_t" > > I have some data in my index, specifically a record with full_name_t = > "Robert P Page" > > A search on: > > full_name_t:Robert > > yields that document, however a search on > > full_name_t:Robert* > > yields nothing. > > Why? > > To get around this I am doing something like > > (full_name_t:Robert OR full_name_t:Robert*) > > But I would like to understand why the wildcard doesnt work, shouldn't > it match anything after the first characters of "Robert"? > > Thanks > > -Rupert
