Hi, Yeah, most of the time that is the case because people tend to lower-case when indexing in order to get case-insensitive searches. Technically, wildcard queries could match even when they are upper-case - if the input was not lower-cased at index time.
Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: Andrew McCombe <eupe...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:04:17 AM > Subject: Re: Filter query with wildcard, fq=a* > > Hi > > I've sorted it. Wildcard term must be lowercase to get results. > > Thanks > Andrew > > 2009/4/30 Andrew McCombe > > > Hi > > > > I have half a million records indexed and need to filter results on a term > > by the first letter. For Example the search term is 'I love' and returns a > > few thousand records. I need to filter these results for all artists > > beginning with 'A'. > > > > I've tried: > > 'fq=artistText:A*' > > > > But then get no results. > > > > Can someone point me in the right direction please? > > > > Regards > > Andrew > >
