: I should have Googled better. It seems that my question has been asked : and answered already, and not just once:
right, wildcard and prefix queries aren't analyzed by the query parser (there's more on the "why" of this in the Lucene-Java FAQ). To clarify one other part of your question.... : > Also, when I use the Field Analysis tool for description:Deck*, it : > shows the following (sorry for the bad copy/paste): the analysis tool only shows you the "analysis" portion of indexing/querying ... it knows nothing about which query parser you are using, so it doesn't know anything about any special query parser characters (like "*"). The output it gave you shows you want the standard request handler would have done if you'd used the standard request handler to search for... description:"Deck*" or: description:Deck\* (where the * character is 'escaped') -Hoss