Lucene is a full text search engine, so it index the full words. If you want to search within words you must index all the posibles search terms with the proper analyzer.
I suggest you to take a look to the lucene in action book to understand how the full text index searchs work. On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:56 PM, tony njedeh <nje...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I know everyone is into the more complex stages of lucene, but I was > wondering if anyone help me with an answer to this. > > I am presently using lucene in an asp.net 2.0 framework. If I do a search for > the word man, it finds everything that starts with man but it doesn't find > anything that ends with Man, like Woman, or SeaMan. Can anyone tell me how to > get lucene to search within words. If its not possible for lucene to do this > search, please can someone let me know > > Thank you for your time > >
