Look at the normal ngram tokenizer. "Engine" with ngram size 3 would yield
"eng" "ngi" "gin" "ine" so a search for engi should match. You can play
around with the min/max values. Edge ngram is useful for prefix matching
but sounds like you want intra-word matching too? ("eng" should match "
ResidentEngineer")On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 7:35 AM, Sohail Aboobaker <sabooba...@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks Jack. > In the configuration below: > > <fieldType name="text_edgngrm" class="solr.TextField" > positionIncrementGap="100"> > <analyzer> > <tokenizer class="solr.EdgeNGramTokenizerFactory" side="front" > minGramSize="1" maxGramSize="1"/> > </analyzer> > </fieldType> > > What are the possible values for "side"? > > If I understand it correctly, minGramSize=3 and side=front, will > include eng* but not en*. Is this correct? So, the minGramSize is for > number of characters allowed in the specified side. > > Does it allow side=both :) or something similar? > > Regards, > Sohail >
