Nick,
"string" is a primitive data-type and the entire value of a field is
indexed as single token. The regex matching happens against the tokens for
text fields and against the full content for string fields. So once a piece
of text is tokenized, there is no way to perform a regex query across word
boundaries.
fullname_s:john smi* is working for me.
{
"responseHeader":{
"zkConnected":true,
"status":0,
"QTime":16,
"params":{
"q":"fullname_s:john smi*",
"indent":"on",
"wt":"json"}},
"response":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"maxScore":1.0,"docs":[
{
"id":"1",
"fullname_s":"john smith",
"_version_":1569446064473243648}]
}}
I am on Solr 6.5.0. What version you are on?
Amrit Sarkar
Search Engineer
Lucidworks, Inc.
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On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Nick Way <n...@southeastpublishing.com>
wrote:
> Hi - I have a Solr collection with a custom field "fullname_s" (a string).
>
> I want "john smi" to find "john smith" (I lower-cased the names upon
> indexing them)
>
> I have tried
>
> fullname_s:"john smi*"
> fullname_s:john smi*
> fullname_s:"john smi?"
> fullname_s:john smi?
>
>
> but nothing gives the expected result - am I missing something? I spent
> hours on this one point yesterday so if anyone can please point me in the
> right direction I'd be really grateful.
>
> I'm using Solr with Adobe Coldfusion by the way but I think the principles
> are the same.
>
> Thank you!
>
> Nick
>
