There are several analyzers provided with Lucene that you could check out. SimpleAnalyzer, WhitespaceAnalyzer and KeywordAnalyzer all come to mind. Certainly WhitespaceAnalyzer won't break at the hyphen etc.
NOTE: be sure you pay attention to what analyzer is used if you are using QueryParser, since the terms in the query are analyzed too. I've had fun with PerFieldAnalyzerWrapper to handle different analyzers for different fields if that's something you want to do. See Analyzer in the JavaDoc, it lists "all known subclasses" which will lead you to the ones mentioned above plus quite a few others. PatternAnalyzer works with regular expressions. How cool is that? You *may* want to get into your own analyzer and/or pre-processing the tokens before indexing and/or before querying. For instance, should O'Brian match OBrian? (notice the apostrophe, it may not be obvious depending on your font). Best Erick
