I have a copy of the book.  It tells you how to index as I noted, but not
how to retrieve the date from search results.  document.get("date") only
returns Strings.  How do I get it to return the Date object?

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On 17 Nov 2005, at 05:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I indexed dates using Field.Keyword(String,Date).  The values seem
> to be
> encoded when I retrieve them via document.get("date").  Luke
> confirmed it.
> How do I decode the Date when retrieving from Document object?  Or
> does it
> not work in version 1.4.3?  Also, does Lucene only sort String values?

What ya need is a brand new copy of Lucene in Action :)

     <http://www.lucenebook.com/search?query=date+convert>

Look at the DateField utilities.

     Erik


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