Hi, I modified the analyzer (it is now vegetarian and won't eat numbers anymore :-) but I have hit a new problem. The parser won't accept a keyword to start with a wildcard character. (*/12/2003) Any hints to solve this new issue?
Many thanks Chris -----Original Message----- From: Erik Hatcher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 01 July 2005 15:11 To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: free text search with numbers On Jul 1, 2005, at 8:06 AM, BOUDOT Christian wrote: > It is the first time that I implement a search with Lucene, so > please don't > laugh if my question seam trivial. > > When I enter some text in my free text search the query gets build > correctly > but when I enter number (as string) the query parser seam to ignore > them. > What am I doing wrong? > > > > Query: org.apache.lucene.search.Query > > Parser: org.apache.lucene.queryParser.MultiFieldQueryParser Chris - the answer to this dilemma is here: http://wiki.apache.org/ jakarta-lucene/AnalysisParalysis In short, the analyzer is eating the numbers as it was designed to do - you'll want to adjust the analyzer to achieve the indexing/ searching for numbers somehow. Erik --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]