Cam, the examples with the provided inline-documentation should help you, no? http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.SynonymFilterFactory
The Backslash \ in that context looks like an Escaping-Character, to avoid the => to be interpreted as "assign-command" Regards Stefan On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Cam Bazz <camb...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have been looking at the solr synonym file that was an example, I > did not understand some notation: > > aaa => aaaa > > bbb => bbbb1 bbbb2 > > ccc => cccc1,cccc2 > > a\=>a => b\=>b > > a\,a => b\,b > > fooaaa,baraaa,bazaaa > > The first one says search for aaaa when query is aaa. am I correct? > the second one finds "bbbb1 bbbb2" when query is bbb > the third one is find cccc1 or cccc2 when query is ccc > > the fourth, and fifth one I have not understood. > > the last one, i assume is a group, bidirectional mapping between > fooaaa,baraaa,bazaaa > > I am especially interested with this last one, if I do aaa,bbb it will > find aaa and bbb when either aaa or bbb is queryied? > > am I correct in those assumptions? > > Best regards, > C.B. >