Ian, I'll respond to this msg, re. searching "path".
I made the change you suggested, to "Field.Index.ANALYZED", and that fixed the problem I was having with searching for components of the "path" field. Thanks! Jim ---- Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com> wrote: > In contrast to your last question and reply, if you use > > doc.add(new Field("path", f.getPath(), Field.Store.YES, > Field.Index.ANALYZED)); > > the path will get split into tokens which will include "myfile1" and > you will be able to search for it. > > The key concept for both questions is analysis. Lucene provides > various analyzers which do different things, and you can write your > own. > > > Or, call QueryParser.setAllowLeadingWildcard(true). That has > performance implications on large indexes. > > > -- > Ian. > > On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 2:40 PM, <oh...@cox.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am working with a modified version of the demo IndexFiles. > > > > In that code, when it builds the index, it has: > > > > doc.add(new Field("path", f.getPath(), Field.Store.YES, > > Field.Index.NOT_ANALYZED)); > > > > In Luke, I can see all the file paths in the "path" field. > > > > I am also using the demo luceneweb web app (under Tomcat), and I've been > > trying to search on the "path" field. > > > > For example, if the "path" has something like: > > > > C:\lucene\foo\myfile1.dat > > > > Is there a way to search for the "myfile1"? > > > > I tried something like: > > > > *myfile1* > > > > but I get an error, because it apparently doesn't like the "*" at the > > beginning of the query string. > > > > Thanks, > > Jim > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org