--- On Fri, 8/10/12, Lochschmied, Alexander <alexander.lochschm...@vishay.com> wrote:
> From: Lochschmied, Alexander <alexander.lochschm...@vishay.com> > Subject: Indexing wildcard patterns > To: "solr-user@lucene.apache.org" <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Date: Friday, August 10, 2012, 11:07 AM > Coming from a SQL database based > search system, we already have a set of defined patterns > associated with our searchable documents. > > % matches no or any number of characters > _ matches one character > > Example: > Doc 1: 'AB%CD', 'AB%CD%' > Doc 2: 'AB_CD' > ... > > Thus Doc 1 matches > ABXYZCD > ABCD > ABCDXYZ > ... > > Whereas Doc 2 matches only > ABXCD > ABYCD > ABZCD > ... > > This can be achieved in SQL WHERE statements using the LIKE > operator. > > Is there a (similar) way to this in Solr? Yes, wildcard search in solr * matches no or any number of characters ? matches one character http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Wildcard%20Searches
