The best and most deterministic way to answer this kind of question is to download Luke and look at the explained query. That'll show you exactly what the effect of different analyzers and the exact structure of the resulting query.
Offhand, I don't think your rewrite will work. Best Erick On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Ghinwa Choueiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to do a search as follows (this is a very simplified example): > > I want to search for: (1) the little boy or (2) one little boy or (3) > little boy > > Can I write the query as: > "the OR one OR "" " AND "little" AND "boy" > > note that what I mean by "" is "Nothing". > > thank you, > -Ghinwa > > PS. I know that I can write the query as "the little boy" OR "one little > boy" OR "little boy" > >