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

I had the same problem in my project. When ever I was search for a word along with the whitespace I was not geting the result. So I replaced the whitespace with a hyphen "-" while indexing and querying. Below is the schema.xml snipet which I used to do so: