I have constructed a number of indexes e.g. Standard, Whitespace etc. so that I can set up and test searches. I also have Luke running to test against them as well.

It seems like quite a simple issue. I am searching for a phrase e.g. "This is to the right" and I am using the Whitespace index.

  luceneStringBodyText = "bodyText:(\"This is to the right\")";
  var query = searchCriteria.RawQuery(luceneStringBodyText);

That should find every instance of "This is to the right" in any bodyText record. It does so unless the sentence in the index ends in a period/full stop i.e. "This is to the right." It does not find that phrase.

In luke, the phrase is found if my search includes the period/full stop but if I omit that, the phrase is not found.

In the second line of code above, RawQuery() changes the text and strips out the period/full stop if I put it in so there appears to be no way to construct the search phrase to include the period/full stop. RawQuery turns the above search string into: "bodyText:"? ? to ? right"" even if I include a period/fullstop after the last word i.e. "right."

Notice also that certain words are replaced by question marks/question points.

There are two questions really:

1. How can I set up a search to find that phrase?

2. Is there any way to stop RawQuery() from omitting the period/full stop if I include that at the end of the search phrase? If I can do that then I can sort this with a work around programmatically. I can live with RawQuery() changing certain words to "?" as that does not seem to affect the search.

Any help appreciated. :)