Lucene has simple wildcard syntax supporting ? and * thus ruby could be matched by rub? r*by etc. This doesn''t work using rdig on the command line e.g. rdig -c config.rb -q ''data:"ru?y"'' gives RDig version 0.3.4 using Ferret 0.10.14 executing query >data:"ru?y"< Query: data:"ru y"~1 which is something entirely different. The ferret docs seem to imply that support for wildcard works as in lucene though I haven''t tried it yet -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.