edismax

I am having a problem doing wildcard searches in lucene syntax using the edismax handler. I have Solr 4.0 nightly build from the trunk. A general search like 'computer' returns results but 'com er' doesn't return any results. Similary, a search like 'co?mput?r' returns no results. The only type of wildcard searches working currrently is ones with trailing wildcards(like compute? or comput ). I want to be able to do searches with wildcards at the beginning ( puter) and in between (com er). Could someone please tell me what I am doing wrong and how to fix it. Thanks. Regards, Imran. With edismax

Regular expressions allows for the pattern matching syntax shown below. I'm trying to implement a powerful search tool that implements as many of these as possible. I'm told that edismax is the most flexible tool for the job. Which of the pattern matching expressions below can be accomplished with edismax? Can I do better than edismax? Can you suggest which filters and parser patches I might use to work towards achieving this functionality? Am I dreaming if I think Solr can achieve acceptable performance (i.e. server-side processing time) of these kinds of searches? regular expression syntax &

I've just ventured into the seemingly simple but extremely complex world of searching. For an application, I am required to build a search mechanism for searching users by their names. After reading numerous posts and articles including: How can I use Lucene for personal name (first name, last name) search? http://dublincore.org/documents/1998/02/03/name-representation/ what's the best way to search a social network by prioritizing a users relationships first? http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/lucene/java-user/120417 Lucene Index and Query Design Question - Searching People Lucene Fuzzy