We want to be able to return a result regardless if users use a colon or not in the query. So 'work:' and 'work' query should still return same result.
With the current parser if a user enters 'work:' with a ":" , Lucene does not return anything :-(. It seems to me the Lucene parser issue.... we are wondering if there is any simple way to make the Lucene parser ignore the ":" in the query? any thoughts? Erick Erickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've got to ask why you'd want to search on colons. Why not just index the words without colons and search without them too? Let's say you index the word "work:" Do you really want to have a search on "work" fail? By and large, you're better off indexing and searching without punctuation.... Best Erick On 1/28/07, Felix Litman wrote: > > Is there a simple way to turn off field-search syntax in the Lucene > parser, and have Lucene recognize words ending in a colon ":" as search > terms instead? > > Such words are very common occurrences for our documents (or any plain > text), but Lucene does not seem to find them. :-( > > Thank you, > Felix > >
