Hi dear René

It's no longer necessary to configure your index to support this - IIRC we had to do that for V7.

Only requirement now seems to be that your index has a searcher of type BaseLuceneSearcher - which is the case for the default indexes.

So it should be possible doing like in the snippet below. My local test site has an About page, which is matched when searching for *out.

Both leading and trailing wildcards are also possible - eg. *ou* still matches my About page, but now also some other pages.

@using Examine
@using Examine.Lucene.Providers
@using Examine.Lucene.Search
@using Examine.Search
@using Limbo.Umbraco.Search.Constants
@inject IExamineManager ExamineManager

@{

    // Get a reference to the index that we wish to use (constant comes from the 'Limbo.Umbraco.Search')
    if (!ExamineManager.TryGetIndex(ExamineIndexes.ExternalIndexName, out IIndex? index)) {
        <pre>Computer says NO!</pre>
        return;
    }

    // Get a reference to the searcher (must be 'BaseLuceneSearcher' to allow leading wildcard)
    if (index.Searcher is not BaseLuceneSearcher searcher) {
        <pre>Computer says NO!</pre>
        return;
    }

    // Initialize a new query
    IQuery query = searcher.CreateQuery(null, default, searcher.LuceneAnalyzer, new LuceneSearchOptions {
        AllowLeadingWildcard = true
    });

    // Update and execute the query with out leading wildcard query
    ISearchResults result = query.NativeQuery("nodeName:*out").Execute();

    // Total amount of matched items
    <pre>@result.TotalItemCount</pre>

    // Iterate through the matched items
    foreach (ISearchResult? item in result) {
        <pre>@item.Id => @item.Values["nodeName"]</pre>
    }

}