Check out QueryParser.setAllowLeadingWildcard():
<http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/queryParser/QueryParser.html#setAllowLeadingWildcard(boolean)>

(though AFAICT this feature is not in any released version of Lucene yet
- you'll have to use a nightly build).

poeta simbolista wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have been through the docs and I can't see why the parser does not parse
> this correctly:
> 
> description:*sql
> 
> is not correct:
> 
> Lexical error at line 1, column 16.  Encountered: "*" (42), after : ""
> 
> However, the following:
> 
> description: sql* 
> 
> is correct.
> Any idea why you can't use wildcard there?
> Cheers
>  D


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