Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 67234 invoked from network); 30 Aug 2002 01:13:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 30 Aug 2002 01:13:59 -0000 Received: (qmail 10966 invoked by uid 97); 30 Aug 2002 01:14:35 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 10940 invoked by uid 97); 30 Aug 2002 01:14:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact lucene-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Lucene Developers List" Reply-To: "Lucene Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 10918 invoked by uid 98); 30 Aug 2002 01:14:34 -0000 X-Antivirus: nagoya (v4218 created Aug 14 2002) Message-ID: <3D6EC752.6090905@lucene.com> Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 18:16:02 -0700 From: Doug Cutting User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lucene Developers List Subject: Re: [Bug 12137] New: - Can '*' or '?' symbol be used as the first character of a search? References: <5.1.0.14.2.20020829150625.039337c0@pop.quiotix.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20020829162357.01baa220@pop.quiotix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Brian Goetz wrote: > Well, not exactly. You can't conditionally define parsing rules. That's why I said it's a SMOP (small matter of programming). The rule that parses wildcards needs to check where the first wildcard in a term is, and if it's too near the front, throw an exception. Or something like that. Doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: For additional commands, e-mail: