Solr query starts with

Question

How I write a query in Solr that performs "start with" function? For example, if I have 3 documents with the following title fields:

1. "Star Wars Episode I"
2. "Star Wars Episode II"
3. "Star Trek"
4. "My Star Wars movie"

I want the query to return first 2 documents, whose title starts with "Star Wars"

Edit: For the record, this is what I end up using:

fq=(name:"/Apple Ipad.*/")&wt=xml

Answer 1

Define '^' as the first character of a search phrase meaning "Starts With".

Define '$' as the last character of a search phrase meaning "Ends With".

Pre-parse your search phrase, substituting '^' and '$' appropriately.

You can use regular expressions

https://web.archive.org/web/20161030170947/http://www.openjems.com/solr-regex-tutorial/