Thanks!

Is it possible to say -"hello world"* ?

-----Original Message-----
From: Erick Erickson [mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:15 PM
To: java-user
Subject: Re: Negative Wildcard Queries

Actually, "hello world*" is possible with the ComplexPhraseQueryParser as of 
4.8, see SOLR-1604 (yeah, it's been hanging around for a while).

But to your question: Just prefix it with *:*, i.e. q=*:* -hello*

Best,
Erick

On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 6:29 PM, Prad Nelluru <prn...@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Is it possible to query Lucene with a negative wildcard query like: -hello*? 
> I know wildcards aren't allowed inside phrase queries, so -"hello world*" 
> isn't possible.
>
> Thanks,
> Prad

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