I solved something similar to this by creating a "stemmer" for part
numbers. Variations like "-BN" on the end can be treated as inflections
in the part number language, similar to plurals in English.
I used a set of regexes to match and transform, in some cases generating
multiple "root" part numb
: It looks alot like using Solr's standard "WordDelimiterFilter" (see the
: sample schema.xml) does what you need.
WordDelimiterFilter will only get you so far. it can split the indexed
text of "3555LHP" into tokens "3555" and "LHP"; and the user entered
"D3555" into the tokens "D" and "3555" --
