The first thing you'll want to check is that you are using an Analyzer
that does not discard that '*' before indexing. StandardAnalyzer, for
instance, will discard it. Check one of Erik Hatcher's articles that
includes a tool that helps you see what your Analyzer does with the any
given text input. You can also use Luke to see what your index
contains.
Otis
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> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to search for a term that contains an asterisk.
>
> This
> is the field that I indexed:
> - new Field("testField", "Hello *foo bar", true,
> true, true);
>
> I'm trying to find this document by matching '*foo':
> - new
> TermQuery(new Term("testField", "*me"));
>
> I've also tried to escape the
> * like this:
> - new TermQuery(new Term("testField", "\\*me"));
>
> Neither
> of these queries return this document. Is this type of search
> possible with
> Lucene?
>
> Thanks.
>
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