Lucene Prefix Search for Indexed data through Standard Analyzer

Question

I am creating index using Lucene 3.6.0 for Java. They are built using Standard Analyzer. Is there any way I can perform prefix search with lucene i.e. i want the results to start with the specified search string without changing the analyzer used for indexing?

Many thanks

Flavia

Answer 1

If you mean queries like "work*" to find "work", "worker", "working", etc. you can already perform those queries using text analyzed with the Standard Analyzer.

documented here: http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_6_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Wildcard%20Searches

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