Doing exact search in Lucene

david2011 · **Joined:** Tue May 17, 2011 1:45 am **Posts:** 52

Hi,

How to have lucene do an exact search? Example if I provide "Soft " I am getting results like Software, but I want lucene to search only the word as is without it being part of another word.

Thanks,
David

sanne.grinovero · **Posted:** Sun Feb 05, 2012 9:00 am

Hi,
the different ways in which Strings are going to be matched is defined by the Analyzer you use. There are lots of analyzers, and in the reference manual you can find ways to easily customize/configure them, or of course you could write your own.

If all you want is exact String matches like defined by String.equals() then just disable the Analyzer on the field.

Code:

@Field(index = Index.YES, analyze = Analyze.NO, ..
String getName() {