Or a boolean field for published, with false meaning deprecated. wunder
On Oct 8, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Jack Krupansky wrote: > Why use regular expressions at all? > > Try: > > published OR deprecated > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Dinusha Dilrukshi > Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 3:32 AM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Regex to match one of two words > > I have an input that can have only 2 values Published or Deprecated. What > regular expression can I use to ensure that either of the two words was > submitted? > > I tried with different regular expressions (as in the [1], [2]) that > contains most generic syntax.. But Solar throws parser exception when > validating these expressions.. Could someone help me on writing this > regular expression that will evaluate by the Solar parser. > > [1] /^(PUBLISHED)?(DEPRECATED)?$/ > [2] /(PUBLISHED)?(DEPRECATED)?/ > > > SolrCore org.apache.solr.common.SolrException: > org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot parse > 'overview_status_s:/(PUBLISHED)?(DEPRECATED)?/': '*' or '?' not allowed as > first character in WildcardQuery > at > org.apache.solr.handler.component.QueryComponent.prepare(QueryComponent.java:108) > > > Regards, > Dinusha. -- Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org
