Joshua Thanks a lot for reply. I think I have not explained my doubt clearly . I am not exactly searching for a letter, but can be a letter or a set of letters .
Example: Consider the sentences 1) "God is love" 2) "Life is beutiful" Currently using lucene we can index this sentence by using different Analyzers. When I create a query for searching in the indexes, as far as my knowledge there are different types of queries . TermQuery,BooleanQuery, PrefixQuery etc. but when we supply a query to an IndexSearcher, the results returned by the IndexSearcher shows that unless if u give the whole word it doesn't find. ie, if I search for "beuti" it doen't return any results. but if we search for "beutiful" it returns the number of hits 1. Is there any way to create a query using any of the lucene Query objects, which should make the Indexsearcher to search even for set of letters.. Best Wishes Pradeep Joshua O'Madadhain wrote: >Pradeep: > >I think what Peter was trying to get at was the question "when is it >useful for a search engine user to be able to search for words that >contain a particular letter?" > >For a language like Chinese, it would certainly be useful to be able to >search for a single character. However, the informational content of a >single letter in an alphabet-based language (such as English) is so low >that I have trouble believing that it would be useful to be able to do >this kind of search. > >That is to say: unless this feature has been presented to you as a >requirement, you may want to think about how it might be used in practice >before you spend a lot of time implementing it. > >Regards, > >Joshua O'Madadhain > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Per Obscurius...www.ics.uci.edu/~jmadden > Joshua O'Madadhain: Information Scientist, Musician, Philosopher-At-Tall > It's that moment of dawning comprehension that I live for--Bill Watterson >My opinions are too rational and insightful to be those of any organization. > >On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Pradeep Kumar K wrote: > > > >>Hi Peter >> I want to include an option called "contains " in my search application. >> for example: Name "contains" 'p' like that... >>Thanks for reply. >>Pradeep >> >>Peter Carlson wrote: >> >> >> >>>Do you really want to be able to find items by letter? Do you have some >>>other purpose that tokenizing by letter is trying to get around. >>> >>>If your do want to tokenize by letter, you can create your own tokenizer >>>which creates breaks up items by letter. See the current tokenizers under >>>org.apache.lucene.analysis. >>> >>>--Peter >>> >>>On 7/10/02 10:26 AM, "Pradeep Kumar K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > > > >>>>Is it possible to search for a word contains some letters? >>>>example : "God is love" >>>> >>>>how can I create query to search for sentences having "d". >>>>I found that lucene is tokenizing a sentence in to words not into letters. >>>>is it possible using lucene? Can anybody give a clue for this? >>>> >>>> > > >-- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >
