copying from Eric Hatcher: See http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-218 - Solr currently does not have leading wildcard support enabled.
There's a pretty extensive recent exchange on this, see the thread on the user's list titled "leading and trailing wildcard query"Best Erick On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Joel Nylund <jnyl...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, I saw some older postings on this, but didnt see a resolution. > > I have a field called title, I would like to be able to find partial word > matches within the title. > > For example: > > http://localhost:8983/solr/select?q=textTitle:%22*sulli*%22 > > I would expect it to find: > <str name="textTitle">the daily dish | by andrew sullivan</str> > > but it doesnt, it does find sully (which is fine with me also as a bonus), > but doesnt seem to get any of the partial word stuff. Oddly enough before I > lowercased the title, the wildcard matching seemed to work a bit better, it > just didnt deal with the case sensitive query. > > At first I had mixed case titles and I read that the wildcard doesn't work > with mixed case, so I created another field that is a lowered version of the > title called "textTitle", it is of type text. > > Is it possible with solr to achieve what I am trying to do, if so how? If > not, anything closer than what I have? > > thanks > Joel > >
