Wildcard search startwith in Azure search not working properly

Question

Wildcard search in luncene query syntax , the suffix with * is appened the word.I need for startwith like, eg1 : search : "associate*" should give me

[{
    "field1": "Associated for"
}, {
    "field1": "Associates for"
}, {
    "field1": "Associates word"
}]

but it returns

[{
    "field1": "you Associated for"
}, {
    "field1": "Associates for"
}, {
    "field1": "word Associates with"
}]

Can any one help me to find a solution for this.

eg2 : "search":"word associate*"

Result expected

[{
    "field1": "word Associated"
}, {
    "field1": "word Associated are"
}, {
    "field1": "word Associates with"
}]

if i use a keyword analyser it gives me result as expected for eg1 but for eg: ( "search":"associates for*") search gave me

[{
    "field1": "forest are located"
}, {
    "field1": "fort are build with"
}, {
    "field1": "fore are"
}]

Result expected

[{
    "field1": "Associates for"
}, {
    "field1": "Associates for abc"
}, {
    "field1": "Associates for xyz"
}]

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 22 '20 at 15:42

1

The result (although is not what you need) is correct. You're searching for documents where "field1" contains associate*

so

"field1":"you Associated for" and "field1":"word Associates with" are correct.

To produce what you want, you need to use keyword analyzer so that the entire field1 value is tokenized into a single token.

As another option you try using Regular Expression, but I'm afraid it can be expensive depending on the number of documents you have in your index.

answered Jan 22 '20 at 15:42

Thiago Custodio

Thank you Thiago Custodio for help. if i use keyword analyser for eg : "Search":"associate*" for this search it give me the result as expected. but for "Search":"word associate*" gives me wrong result (request you to check my edited question). i need to search like as i type a letter search should result startwith value from index (autocomplete basically) – Nayana Jan 23 '20 at 06:33
it's the way default analyzer works. In other words, you're asking for "for*" or "associates". – Thiago Custodio Jan 23 '20 at 14:34

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