Uhhhhm not sure what that means. Are you looking to not return docs where "hello" is followed by "world", "worldiness", "worldly"? If so the syntax is wrong...
But you'd need to use the ComplexPhraseQueryParser available in 4.8 to do something like that. Best, Erick On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 10:17 AM, Prad Nelluru <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks! > > Is it possible to say -"hello world"* ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Erick Erickson [mailto:[email protected]] > 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 <[email protected]> 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
