Nick - try escaping the space, so that your query is q=fullname_s:john\ smi*
However, whitespace and escaping is problematic. There is a handy prefix query
parser, so this would work on a string field with spaces:
q={!prefix f=fullname_s}john smi
note no trailing asterisk on that one. Even better, IMO, is to separate the
query string from the query parser:
q={!prefix f=fullname_s v=$qq}&qq=john smi
Erik
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Amrit - the issue with your example below is that q=fullname_s:john smi* parses
“john” against fullname_s and “smi” as a prefix query against the default
field, not likely fullname_s. Check your parsed query to see exactly how it
parsed. It works for you because… magic! (copyField * => _text_)
> On Jun 6, 2017, at 5:14 AM, Amrit Sarkar <sarkaramr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Nick,
>
> "string" is a primitive data-type and the entire value of a field is
> indexed as single token. The regex matching happens against the tokens for
> text fields and against the full content for string fields. So once a piece
> of text is tokenized, there is no way to perform a regex query across word
> boundaries.
>
> fullname_s:john smi* is working for me.
>
> {
> "responseHeader":{
> "zkConnected":true,
> "status":0,
> "QTime":16,
> "params":{
> "q":"fullname_s:john smi*",
> "indent":"on",
> "wt":"json"}},
> "response":{"numFound":1,"start":0,"maxScore":1.0,"docs":[
> {
> "id":"1",
> "fullname_s":"john smith",
> "_version_":1569446064473243648}]
> }}
>
> I am on Solr 6.5.0. What version you are on?
>
>
> Amrit Sarkar
> Search Engineer
> Lucidworks, Inc.
> 415-589-9269
> www.lucidworks.com
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>
> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Nick Way <n...@southeastpublishing.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi - I have a Solr collection with a custom field "fullname_s" (a string).
>>
>> I want "john smi" to find "john smith" (I lower-cased the names upon
>> indexing them)
>>
>> I have tried
>>
>> fullname_s:"john smi*"
>> fullname_s:john smi*
>> fullname_s:"john smi?"
>> fullname_s:john smi?
>>
>>
>> but nothing gives the expected result - am I missing something? I spent
>> hours on this one point yesterday so if anyone can please point me in the
>> right direction I'd be really grateful.
>>
>> I'm using Solr with Adobe Coldfusion by the way but I think the principles
>> are the same.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Nick
>>
