In your example there is no space between +wow -kill so my guess is that solr is interpreting it as wow-kill all one word. Then depending on the field type the tokenizer is probably splitting wow and kill into 2 words along the -. -- Jeff Newburn
> From: sunnyfr <johanna...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 06:03:42 -0800 (PST) > To: <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Subject: dismax + and - > > > Hi > > How come if i put in my query q=+wow-kill > <str name="q">wow-kill</str> > <str name="qt">dismax</str> > > I will have books which contain wow and kill instead of books which have wow > in the title without kill??? > Thanks a lot, > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/dismax-%2B-and---tp22224770p22224770.html > Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >