Leading wildcard character (*) is not allowed if you use QueryParser that comes with Lucene. Reason: performance. See many discussions about this on lucene-user mailing list. Also see the search sytax document on the Lucene site. What other characters are you having trouble with?
Otis --- Santosh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > whenever I search with some special chracters like " *world " I am > getting exception . how can I avoid this? and for what other > characters lucene give this type of exceptions? > > > -----------------------SOFTPRO > DISCLAIMER------------------------------ > > Information contained in this E-MAIL and any attachments are > confidential being proprietary to SOFTPRO SYSTEMS is 'privileged' > and 'confidential'. > > If you are not an intended or authorised recipient of this E-MAIL or > have received it in error, You are notified that any use, copying or > dissemination of the information contained in this E-MAIL in any > manner whatsoever is strictly prohibited. Please delete it > immediately > and notify the sender by E-MAIL. > > In such a case reading, reproducing, printing or further > dissemination > of this E-MAIL is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. > > SOFTPRO SYSYTEMS does not REPRESENT or WARRANT that an attachment > hereto is free from computer viruses or other defects. > > The opinions expressed in this E-MAIL and any ATTACHEMENTS may be > those of the author and are not necessarily those of SOFTPRO SYSTEMS. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
