Not sure if you're still after a solution, but I had a similar issue and I
modified QueryParser.jj to not treat : as a field name terminator, so work:
would then just be given as work: to the analyzer and treated as a search term.
Antony
Felix Litman wrote:
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
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