Help with Examine / Lucene Query

[turbid bramble]

Hello, seems there is not much action in the Umbraco forums. No answer to my question since 5 days.

So if anyone has experience with Examine/Lucene, would be nice if you would have a look. 🙂

https://our.umbraco.com/forum/using-umbraco-and-getting-started/112405-searching-for-content-with-wildcard-with-examine

Thanks

[rigid creek]

Hey @turbid bramble
You can't have a wildcard as the first character as specified here. This means that you wouldn't match "ceiling" on the query "ling": https://lucene.apache.org/core/2_9_4/queryparsersyntax.html#Wildcard Searches

(Updated Examine docs on wildcards: https://shazwazza.github.io/Examine/articles/searching.html#wildcards)

You might what to look into proximity or fuzzy searching instead: https://shazwazza.github.io/Examine/articles/searching.html#proximity

[turbid bramble]

Thanks for your reply @rigid creek . I read that there is a **query.QueryParser.AllowLeadingWildcard ** but the QueryParser doesn't seem to exist in v12 ! :/

I find its pretty odd not to allow leading wildcard. Its been a basic feature of any database for decades now. Unless there's someting I don't fully understand.