Hello, Wildard queries are inefficient in general. But it sounds like you simply want to combine them into a BooleanQuery where each clause is a SHOULD clause.
A better place to ask is java-user list. Otis -- Sematext -- http://sematext.com/ -- Lucene - Solr - Nutch ----- Original Message ---- > From: jm85 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: general@lucene.apache.org > Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2008 7:14:03 AM > Subject: Wildcard Search over multiple fields > > > Hello, > > What is the best method of performing a leading and trailing wildcard search > over multiple fields? Currently I performing a wildcard search on one field > at the time, but this potentially inefficient: > > WildcardQuery wildCardQuery = new WildcardQuery(new Term(searchField, "*" + > searchText + "*")); > > Thanks for your help, > > James Murphy > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Wildcard-Search-over-multiple-fields-tp17101839p17101839.html > Sent from the Lucene - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com.