Because ~ is proximity matching. Lucene supports finding words are a within a specific distance away. Search for "foo bar" within 4 words from each other.
"foo bar"~4 Note that for proximity searches, exact matches are proximity zero, and word transpositions (bar foo) are proximity 1. A query such as "foo bar"~10000000 is an interesting alternative to foo AND bar. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/How-to-properly-use-Levenstein-distance-with-in-Java-tp4164793p4165079.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
