Lucene and forward slash

In my index there is a value companyName:opel/vauxhall
Searching for "opel/vauxhall" returns the correct results.
Searching for "opel/*" returns nothing.

Currently I'm replacing the '/' with spaces. But that does give my code a bit of a smell.

Any better ideas?

From stackoverflow

• Hi,

  What database is that?

  M.

  borisCallens : http://incubator.apache.org/lucene.net/

• This kind of problem is almost always caused by the analyzer used for indexing and searching (parsing the query).

  Try using a different analyzer, for example StopAnalyzer.