: the record is found. I was wondering how the colon character affects : the search, and if there is another way to write a wildcard query.
most likely the issue is that your analyzer is striping out the colon character, hence your normal phrase search works (because the colon is striped out both when indexing and querying) but your wildcards don't, because the wildcard query string is not analyzed... http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/LuceneFAQ#head-133cf44dd3dff3680c96c1316a663e881eeac35a -Hoss
