you'll probably get more responses to a question about how to use lucene if you use the java-user list (the java-dev list is for discussing deevelopment of the core lucene library)
: How to search numbers using Lucene API : I an using a demo application so as to search the documents but when i : search the numbers or alphanumeric text it appends an empty space and no : hits are returned any help would be appreciated lucene allows for searcihhng anything htat can be expressed as a string ... if you are having problems with numbers and alphanumeric text then it may be because of hte analyzer you have choosen .. searching the archives will turn up a bunch of good info on diagnosing analyzer issues ... if you have followup questions, please post them with examples of the code you are trying and the input/output you are getting to java-user -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]