I think the TokenFilter approach is the easiest. Another option would be to go 
deeper and introduce it as a native query language syntax in some way and add 
boundarymatch="true" as a parameter in the schema. Any opinions?

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On 1. juli 2010, at 05.38, Lance Norskog (JIRA) wrote:

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> Lance Norskog commented on SOLR-1980:
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> Another use case is with phrases, especially sloppy phrases.
> "^hello kitty" would find "hello kitty" at the beginning of the text.
> "^hello"~5 would find "hello" among the first 5 words, but the closer to the 
> beginning, the better. This is especially interesting for consumer searches- 
> people tend to type the first word of a movie title first.
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>> Implement boundary match support
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>> 
>>                Key: SOLR-1980
>>                URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1980
>>            Project: Solr
>>         Issue Type: New Feature
>>         Components: Schema and Analysis
>>           Reporter: Jan Høydahl
>> 
>> Sometimes you need to specify that a query should match only at the start or 
>> end of a field, or be an exact match.
>> Example content:
>> 1) a quick fox is brown
>> 2) quick fox is brown
>> Example queries:
>> "^quick fox" -> should only match 2)
>> "brown$" -> should match 1) and 2)
>> "^quick fox is brown$" -> should only match 2)
>> Proposed way of implmementation is through a new BoundaryMatchTokenFilter 
>> which behaves like this:
>> On the index side it inserts special unique tokens at beginning and end of 
>> field. These could be some weird unicode sequence.
>> On the query side, it looks for the first character matching "^" or the last 
>> character matching "$" and replaces them with the special tokens.
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