> Here's my question: > I have some products that I want to allow people to search for with > wild cards. For example, if my product is YBM354, I'd like for users to > be able to search on "YBM*", "YBM3*", "YBM35*" and for any of these > searches to return that product. I've found that I can search for > "YBM*" and get the product, just not the other combinations.
Are you using WordDelimiterFilterFactory? That would explain this behavior. If so, do you need it - for the queries you describe you don't need that kind of tokenization. Also, have you played with the analysis tool on the admin page, it is a great help in debugging things like this. -Ken