: now very useful when combined. I'm going to investigate other means of
: taking into account the wildcard queries and handling them in a
: different way. Rest assured that if I find a solution I'll post it to
: the user group.
the most straight forward solution is to have two indexed files -- o
Chris
Your shot in the dark was correct, I am using Porter Stemming. Thanks to your excellent response I
understand now why wildcards and stemming are now very useful when combined. I'm going to
investigate other means of taking into account the wildcard queries and handling them in a different
I'm going to take a shot in the dark and guess that the field in question
is analyzed using some form of Stemming which strips off trailing "e"
characters (Porter Stemmer seems to do this).
In the past, there was a bug in the way WildcardQuery works, so that the
metacharacter "?" matches 0 or 1 c
