You have to look at your analyzers. StandardAnalyzer tries to respect things like e-mail addresses. Various other analyzers you could use do things like break on punctuation.
I'd suggest you get a copy of Luke and examine what your index actually holds and you can look at the parsed form of a query. Note that in Luke, you can choose various analyzers for these steps. So, you'll probably have to write your own Analyzer (see Lucene In Action for examples). And be sure that you use the same analyzer for both indexing and querying unless and until you really understand them. Finally, show us your indexing and query code if you want more suggestions, but please pare out any unnecessary parts..... Best Erick On Jan 17, 2008 1:59 PM, DURGA DEEP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI folks, > > We are facing this problem with able to find the following > strings. > > For Example: > > a.b.c > a_b_c > > Are we doing some thing wrong ?. Seems like the ( . / Period Character ) > ( > _ / Underscore Character ) are being tossed away. > > And if we are trying to search for a.b.c we are unable to find it. But we > are able to find abc. > > Since we have lots of IP Addresses in our work, this is a severe > limitation. > Can some one help ? > > > Thanks Much > _Durga >
