On Feb 3, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Max Lynch wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to do a search for "Microsoft Windows" as a span, but not match
> if words before or after "Microsoft Windows" are upper cased.
>
> For example, I want this to match: another crash for Microsoft Windows today
> But not this: another crash for Microsoft Windows Server today
>
> Is this possible? My first attempt started with the SpanRegexQuery from the
> regex contrib package, but I can't figure out how to put in a term I do want
> to match but don't want to include in the final highlighting match. Does
> that make sense?
>
> My example (using WhitespaceAnalyzer since I care about case):
>
> SpanRegexQuery srq1 = new SpanRegexQuery( new Term("contents", "Chase"));
> SpanRegexQuery srq2 = new SpanRegexQuery( new Term("contents",
> "Bank[\\.]*"));
> SpanRegexQuery srq3 = new SpanRegexQuery( new Term("contents", "[^A-Z]*"));
I'm not sure it supports it, but I wonder if you could use a negative lookahead
assertion? Most regex languages support it.
-Grant
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