Martijn: What you describe sounds like a great approach to solving my problem. If I cannot get edismax to ignore it, then escape it to accomplish the same thing.
I'll give that a try. Thanks! Jeff On Apr 27, 2012, at 2:43 PM, Martijn van Groningen wrote: > Hi Jeff, > > Another option is to use the Lucene escape character: '\' > Escaping is described here: > http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/3_5_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping > Special Characters > > If you're using SolrJ you can use the ClientUtils#escapeQueryChars(), > this would escape the whole query (not only the * character). > Hope it helps. > > Martijn > > On 27 April 2012 21:12, Jeff Schmidt <j...@535consulting.com> wrote: >> Hello: >> >> In my application domain, there is something known as a microRNA star >> strand, which contains '*' as a character. For example: hsa-let-7a-2*, >> which is distinct from hsa-let-7a-2. >> >> I'm using edismax to handle queries. I need to treat '*' just like any other >> punctuation character. Is that possible with edismax? Or would have I have >> to revert to dismax? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jeff >> -- >> Jeff Schmidt >> 535 Consulting >> j...@535consulting.com >> http://www.535consulting.com >> (650) 423-1068 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > -- > Met vriendelijke groet, > > Martijn van Groningen -- Jeff Schmidt 535 Consulting j...@535consulting.com http://www.535consulting.com (650) 423-1068
