> How do I perform a "starts with" > search in Lucene/Solr. > > Ex: I need all results that start with > "Bill" - NOT just contain "Bill" somewhere > in the search string.
In Lucene with SpanFirstQuery [1]. In Solr you can copy your field into a string typed field. And use prefix query: string_field:Bill* [1]http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_0/api/all/org/apache/lucene/search/spans/SpanFirstQuery.html
