Would Lucene's FuzzyQuery be useful in this case? I suppose it would depend on how meaningful the sequences of numbers are.
http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/api/org/apache/lucene/search/FuzzyQuery.html --- Chris Hostetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : I could (1) up front, put in both versions of the > numbers or (2) during > : query, play with the number and search both ways. > What's the best > : practice approach? > > In the imortal words of Erik Hatcher... > > "It Depends :)" > > #1 takes up more space on disk and in memory, and > makes it imposible to > sort on that field (you can only sort on fields with > 0 or 1 terms per doc) > ... #2 makes the query take a little longer ... you > really won't notice a > difference if you have an index of 1000 Documents > and one user, but you > might if you have 1,000,000 items and 100 concurrent > users. > > > > -Hoss > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
