Thanks for the quick response Mike... Ideally it should match more than just a single character, i.e. "the" in "weather" or "pro" in "profile" or "000" in "18000".
Would these cases be taken care of by the StopFilterFactory? Thanks, david > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Tips for searching > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:40:41 -0800 > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > > On 30-Nov-07, at 4:27 PM, Dave C. wrote: > > > When I perform a query on a field using a single character, I get > > no results back: for example, if i search on the "description" > > field for the character 'a', i.e. (description:a), I get no results > > back. I would like to get all documents where the letter 'a' > > appears in the description field. > > > > I haven't played around with any of the settings in my schema.xml, > > so I am wondering if someone could point out how I could configure > > Solr such that it will return me all documents with an 'a' (or any > > arbitrary character) in the description field. If this could be > > expanded to match any sub-word (i.e. match "the" in "weather") that > > would be great as well. > > Any single character, or just 'a'? IR systems often strip out stop > words (extremely common) words for efficiency reasons. This is > configured via the "StopFilterFactory" in schema.xml: just remove it > from the field you are interested in and reindex. > > -Mike _________________________________________________________________ Share life as it happens with the new Windows Live.Download today it's FREE! http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_sharelife_112007
