Maurice, Please look at the tool Luke,
http://www.getopt.org/luke And that can help you see into your index. Maybe there is some trouble with spaces or trimming of strings...but Luke can help you there! Good luck, Maurits ----- Original Message ----- From: "Maurice Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 9:18 PM Subject: problems extracting documents using Terms > hi all, > > i'm trying to extract a document number from my lucene index using (where > read is an IndexReader) > TermDocs td = read.termDocs(new Term("url", someurl)); > > This call never returns any results, despite the fact that i definitely know > that a document with the url field equal to someurl exists in the index > (because i know the document in the index's document number and the code: > > Document d=read.document(docnum); > System.out.println(d.get("url")); > > outputs the String someurl). > > i don't know what's going on, hopefully i've included enough information for > someone to spot what's up. > > thanks very much, > maurice > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]