Solr wildcard query with whitespace

Question

I have a wildcard query that looks something like:

q=location:los a*

I\'d like it to match \"los angeles\" and \"los altos\". A query like

Answer 1

Solution for your problem using complex query parser:

q={!complexphrase inOrder=true}location:"los a*"

To know more about Complex phrase query parser, checkout this link! https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Other+Parsers#OtherParsers-ComplexPhraseQueryParser