Proximity with phrase search using wild cards is not maintaining the order and giving the wrong result
I am trying to search “Bal* Peti*”~5 for which the result should have both the specified words in the same order within a proximity of 5.
but the result doesnt respect the order and both the specified words arent available in few cases.
The proximity operator ~ defines how many transpositions of phrase query terms are allowed. Currently the proximity operator does not support wildcards.
Let's look at a few phrase queries and one document has three terms on subsequent positions: A B C
"A B" will match - this is equivalent to "A B"~0 "A C"~1 will match - term C moved forward by one position "C B" won't match "C B"~1 won't match - with only one allowed transposition we can move terms B and C to the same position "C B"~2 will match - by allowing two transpositions the terms can reverse order of the phrase query terms
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