Just add a check in the while statement to exit as soon as the pattern of the term changes. You could check if the term does not start with your input and exit from the while loop there. It would exit wherever the term start changes from what you want.
-- Anshum Gupta Naukri Labs! http://ai-cafe.blogspot.com The facts expressed here belong to everybody, the opinions to me. The distinction is yours to draw............ On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 3:09 PM, DHIVYA M <dhivyakrishna...@yahoo.com>wrote: > Sir, > > Your suggestion was fantastic. > > I tried the below mentioned code but it is showing me the entire result of > indexed words starting from the letter that i give as input. > Ex: > if i give "fo" > am getting all the indexes from the word starting with fo upto words > starting with z. > i.e. it starts displaying from the word matching the search word and ends > up with the last word available in the index file. > > Kindly suggest me a solution for this problem > > Thanks in advance, > Dhivya > > --- On Wed, 25/11/09, Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> wrote: > > > From: Uwe Schindler <u...@thetaphi.de> > Subject: RE: Need help regarding implementation of autosuggest using jquery > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Date: Wednesday, 25 November, 2009, 9:54 AM > > > Hi Dhivya, > > you can iterate all terms in the index using a TermEnum, that can be > retrieved using IndexReader.terms(Term startTerm). > > If you are interested in all terms from a specific field, position the > TermEnum on the first possible term in this field ("") and iterate until > the > field name changes. As terms in the TermEnum are first ordered by field > name > then by term text (in UTF-16 order), the loop would look like this: > > IndexReader reader = ... > String field = .... > Field = field.intern(); // important for the while loop > TermEnum tenum = reader.terms(new Term(field,"")); > try { > do { > final Term term = tenum.term(); > if (term==null || term.field()!=field) break; > final String termText = term.text(); > // do something with the termText > } while (tenum.next()); > } finally { > tenum.close(); > } > > > ----- > Uwe Schindler > H.-H.-Meier-Allee 63, D-28213 Bremen > http://www.thetaphi.de > eMail: u...@thetaphi.de > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: DHIVYA M [mailto:dhivyakrishna...@yahoo.com] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:06 AM > > To: java user > > Subject: Need help regarding implementation of autosuggest using jquery > > > > Hi all, > > > > Am using lucene 2.3.2 as a search engine in my e-paper site. So that i > > want the user to search the news. I achieved that objective but now am > > trying to implement autosuggest so that user can pick a choice from the > > drop down and no need of typing in the entire sentence or so. > > > > I have download Jquery for this purpose and am trying to implement it. > > The collections of data to refer for the suggestion is given in an > > arraylist or jus with in a string. > > > > But for my application, i need to populate the suggestions with the > > indexed words available in the index file created during indexing > > operation. > > > > Can anyone give an idea to read the contents from the index file and make > > it available as suggestions? or anyother idea to achieve this objective? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > Dhivya > > > > > > The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! > Homepage. > > http://in.yahoo.com/ > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > > > > The INTERNET now has a personality. YOURS! See your Yahoo! Homepage. > http://in.yahoo.com/ >
