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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:19:35+00:00

I am using the Lucene search engine but it only seems to find matches

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I am using the Lucene search engine but it only seems to find matches that occur at the beginning of terms.

For example:
Searching for “one” would match “onematch” or “one day a time” but not “loneranger”.

The Lucene doc says it doesnt support wildcards at the front of a search string so I am not sure whether Lucene even searches inter-term matches or only can match documents that start with the search term.

Is this a problem with how I have created my index, how I am building my search query or just a limitation of Lucene?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Found some info in another post here on Stack Overflow [LUCENE.NET] Leading wildcard throws an error”

    You can set the SetAllowLeadingWildcardCharacters property on your Query Parser to allow leading wildcards during your search. This will of course have the obvious large performance impact but will allow user to find matches within a search term.

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