It is really not fixed. It could also be *-*-BAAN or BAAN-CAN20-*. In each i just want only the fixed character(s) to match then the * can match any character.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Toke Eskildsen <t...@statsbiblioteket.dk>wrote: > On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 14:15 +0200, Kissue Kissue wrote: > > I have added the string: *-BAAN-* to the index to a field called pattern > > which is a string type. Now i want to be able to search for A100-BAAN-C20 > > or ZA20-BAAN-300 and have Solr return *-BAAN-*. > > That sounds a lot like the problem presented in the thread > "Indexing wildcard patterns": > http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/AAfXfcuIJY9BQJL3mjty > > The short answer is no, Solr does not support this in the general form. > But maybe you can make it work anyway. In your example, the two queries > A100-BAAN-C20 and ZA20-BAAN-300 share the form > [4 random characters]-[4 significant characters]-[3 random characters] > so a little bit of pre-processing would rewrite that to > *-[4 significant characters]-* > which would match *-BAAN-* > > If you describe the patterns and common elements to your indexed terms > and to your queries, we might come up with something. > >
