Sure, this is how we do it now. But wouldn't it be nice with native support for it? I could start coding it myself but wanted to know if there is a patch out there already or something...
-- Jan Høydahl, search solution architect Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com Training in Europe - www.solrtraining.com On 14. mars 2010, at 00.17, Lance Norskog wrote: > One way is to add magic 'beginning' and 'end' terms, then do phrase > searches with those terms. > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:51 AM, Jan Høydahl / Cominvent > <jan....@cominvent.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Sometimes you need to anchor your search to start/end of field. >> >> Example: >> 1. title=New York Yankees >> 2. title=New York >> 3. title=York >> >> If I search title:"New York", or title:"York" I would get a match, but I'd >> like to anchor my search to beginning and/or end of the field, e.g. with >> regex syntax, title:"^New York$" >> >> Now, I know how to work-around this, by appending some unique character >> sequence at each end of the field and then include this in my search in the >> front end. However, I wonder if any of you have been planning a patch to add >> a native boundary match feature to Solr that would automagically add tokens >> (also for multi-value fields!), and expand the query language to allow >> querying for starts-with(), ends-with() and equals() >> >> -- >> Jan Høydahl, search solution architect >> Cominvent AS - www.cominvent.com >> Training in Europe - www.solrtraining.com >> >> > > > > -- > Lance Norskog > goks...@gmail.com
