Great. And you shouldn't need the "{1}" - the square brackets match a
single character by definition.
-- Jack Krupansky
On Mon, Mar 7, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Jay Potharaju <jspothar...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks Jack, the problem was my regex. Following regex worked.
> <filter class="solr.PatternCaptureGroupFilterFactory" pattern=
> "([a-zA-Z0-9]{1})" preserve_original="false"/>
> Jay
>
> On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:43 PM, Jack Krupansky <jack.krupan...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > The filter name, "Capture Group", says it all - only pattern groups are
> > captured and you have not specified even a single group. See the example:
> >
> >
> http://www.solr-start.com/javadoc/solr-lucene/org/apache/lucene/analysis/pattern/PatternCaptureGroupFilterFactory.html
> >
> > Groups are each enclosed within parentheses, as shown in the Javadoc
> > example above.
> >
> > Since no groups were found, the filter doc applied this rule:
> > "If none of the patterns match, or if preserveOriginal is true, the
> > original token will be preserved."
> >
> >
> http://www.solr-start.com/javadoc/solr-lucene/org/apache/lucene/analysis/pattern/PatternCaptureGroupTokenFilter.html
> >
> > That should probably also say "or if no pattern groups match".
> >
> > To test regular expressions, try an interactive online tool, such as:
> > https://regex101.com/
> >
> > -- Jack Krupansky
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Alexandre Rafalovitch <
> arafa...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I don't see the brackets that mark the group you actually want to
> > > capture. As per:
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.solr-start.com/javadoc/solr-lucene/org/apache/lucene/analysis/pattern/PatternCaptureGroupTokenFilter.html
> > >
> > > I am also not sure if you actually need "{0,1}" part.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Alex.
> > > ----
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> > >
> > >
> > > On 7 March 2016 at 04:25, Jay Potharaju <jspothar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I have a custom field for getting the first letter of an firstname.
> For
> > > > this I am using PatternCaptureGroupFilterFactory.
> > > > This is not working as expected, not able to parse the data and get
> the
> > > > first character for the string. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
> > > >
> > > > <fieldType class="solr.TextField" name="text_firstLetter">
> > > >
> > > > <analyzer>
> > > >
> > > > <tokenizer class="solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"/>
> > > >
> > > > <filter class="solr.UpperCaseFilterFactory"/>
> > > >
> > > > <filter class="solr.PatternCaptureGroupFilterFactory"
> pattern=
> > > > "^[a-zA-Z0-9]{0,1}" preserve_original="false"/>
> > > >
> > > > </analyzer>
> > > >
> > > > </fieldType>
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Jay
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Thanks
> Jay Potharaju
>
