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From: Zachary Zolton <zachary.zolton@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:42:16 -0500
Message-ID: <f728979f0909111042u9c1daeci3527e0cfc39f0752@mail.gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Lucene partial text search
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Lucene supports single letter "?" and multi-letter "*" wildcards:

http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_0_0/queryparsersyntax.html

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Michael McCaffrey
<mmccaffrey@ittvis.com> wrote:
> Looking at the couch docs for lucene, they all reference FullText
> searching.
>
>
>
> I've done the simple example from the wiki and =A0can get the search to
> work if I put all the text in the field in the q=3D"..." search.
>
>
>
> Is it possible to do partial text searches? Like all the records that
> contain "abc" in the field? Like a q=3D"*abc*" wildcard query?
>
>
>
> I see where the lucene documentation shows lots of capabilities, but
> wonder if these are available/accessible in couch.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Mike
>
>