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Reputation: 500

JAVA - Lucene search query - hyphens with wildcards

I've got a huge problem with Lucene (v3.5) search query. I'm trying to retrieve strings with hyphens using query containing hyphens and a wildcard sign(s), example: names in db: A4RER-88-22331 A4RER-22-32555 B3B8B-22-32555

query: A4RER-*

I've used WhitespaceAnalyzer (earlier StandardAnalyzer) but... the query is working for "A4RER*" but not "A4RER-*" :( I've googled a lot already, but still can't find a solution for this. Is there a simple way to force it to work?

thanks for any hint/help/snippet/anything

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1840

Answers (1)

Leo Est Omnia
Leo Est Omnia

Reputation: 131

When using a WildcardQuery, replace hyphens with question marks. The question mark represents a single character.

Change this: "query: A4RER-*"

To this: "query: A4RER?*"

Upvotes: 1

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