Before indexing so outside Solr? Using the SynonymFilter would be easier i guess.
On Monday 16 May 2011 17:44:24 Robert Petersen wrote: > I have always just converted terms like 'C#' or 'C++' into 'csharp' and > 'cplusplus' before indexing them and similarly converted those terms if > someone searched on them. That always has worked just fine for me... > > :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu] > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 8:28 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Re: How to index and query "C#" as whole term? > > I don't think you'd want to use the string type here. String type is > almost never appropriate for a field you want to actually search on (it > is appropriate for fields to facet on). > > But you may want to use Text type with different analyzers selected. > You probably want Text type so the value is still split into different > tokens on word boundaries; you just don't want an analyzer set that > removes punctuation. > > On 5/16/2011 10:46 AM, Gora Mohanty wrote: > > On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Gnanakumar<gna...@zoniac.com> wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm using Apache Solr v3.1. > >> > >> How do I configure/allow Solr to both index and query the term "c#" > > as a > > >> whole word/term? From "Analysis" page, I could see that the term > > "c#" is > > >> being reduced/converted into just "c" by > > solr.WordDelimiterFilterFactory. > > > [...] > > > > Yes, as you have discovered the analyzers for the field type in > > question will affect the values indexed. > > > > To index "c#" exactly as is, you can use the "string" type, instead > > of the "text" type. However, what you probably want some filters > > to be applied, e.g., LowerCaseFilterFactory. Take a look at the > > definition of the fieldType "text" in schema.xml, define a new field > > type that has only the tokenizers and analyzers that you need, and > > use that type for your field. This Wiki page should be helpful: > > http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters > > > > Regards, > > Gora -- Markus Jelsma - CTO - Openindex http://www.linkedin.com/in/markus17 050-8536620 / 06-50258350
