On Wed, 2012-10-10 at 14:15 +0200, Kissue Kissue wrote: > I have added the string: *-BAAN-* to the index to a field called pattern > which is a string type. Now i want to be able to search for A100-BAAN-C20 > or ZA20-BAAN-300 and have Solr return *-BAAN-*.
That sounds a lot like the problem presented in the thread "Indexing wildcard patterns": http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/AAfXfcuIJY9BQJL3mjty The short answer is no, Solr does not support this in the general form. But maybe you can make it work anyway. In your example, the two queries A100-BAAN-C20 and ZA20-BAAN-300 share the form [4 random characters]-[4 significant characters]-[3 random characters] so a little bit of pre-processing would rewrite that to *-[4 significant characters]-* which would match *-BAAN-* If you describe the patterns and common elements to your indexed terms and to your queries, we might come up with something.
