[KinoSearch] wildcard searching

[Matthew O'Connor]

On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:06 AM, John Scofield wrote:

> I am having a problem getting wildcard searching to work.  I  
> understand that it is implemented in Lucene, but could not find any  
> good documentation on its implementation in Kinosearch.  I  
> apologize if it is readily available, just point me to it.
>
> Basically I attempt to pass a query such as "Mar?" which in my  
> understanding should return things like "Mary" or "Mark".  Instead,  
> I get no hits.   It's the same with *.  Any suggestions would be  
> greatly appreciated...

KinoSearch doesn't have Wildcard searching.  Socialtext implemented  
very simple Wildcard searching, in the obvious way.  It's slow and  
icky, and usually stemming gives better results.   If you really must  
have it then I can point you at some code.

-matthew

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