Have a look at solr.StopFilterFactory. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Filter+Descriptions#FilterDescriptions-StopFilter
If your place holders (?) are works like and, the, is, to, etc (see lang/stopwords_??.txt), the stop filter is designed to do what you want. It leaves holes in the parsed text so that word distance is maintained in the output. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Stewart [mailto:b...@kasisto.com] Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 9:19 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Solr query to match document "templates" - sort of a reverse wildcard match If I have SOLR document with field value such as: "a ? c ? e" And I want a phrase query such as "a b c d e" to match that document. So: q:"a b c d e" --> return doc with "a ? c ? e" as field value for "q" field. Is this possible, or is there a way it can be done with a plug-in using lower level Lucene SDK? Maybe some custom implementation of TermQuery where value of "?" always matches any term in the query? Thanks! Robert Stewart ************************************************************************* This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately and then delete it. TIAA-CREF *************************************************************************
