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Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:54:43 -0500
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Subject: Whitespace/Standard Analyzer and punctuation
From: Max Lynch <ihasmax@gmail.com>
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I would like my searches to match "John Smith" when John Smith is in a
document, but not separated with punctuation.  For example, when I was using
StandardAnalyzer, "John. Smith" was matching, which is wrong for me.  Right
now I am using WhitespaceAnalyzer but instead searching for "John Smith"
"John Smith." "John Smith," etc., which seems like a dumb thing to be
doing.  Can I separate the punctuation but keep the analyzer aware of where
the punctuation occurred in my matching term?

Thanks.

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