Re: How to do partial beginning matches

Most of what I've gleaned has come off the users list, but then I've been monitoring it for several years. You can search all the back posts here: http://www.lucidimagination.com/search/?q=#/p:lucene,solr for instance searching wildcard AN

Re: How to do partial beginning matches

Thank you, Erick. Where can I find more information about the *term* queries and how to solve them? It might come up in the future. Are there blogs, or books, or something? Thanks, Felix 2010/5/6 Erick Erickson > There's really no connection between NGrams and *. NGrams can be used > to handle h

Re: How to do partial beginning matches

There's really no connection between NGrams and *. NGrams can be used to handle hairy wildcard expressions, in particular searching for things like *blah* is one potential use of NGrams. But your problem is simple to solve without bothering with NGrams, just use the "begin*" syntax, no special ind