> I need to retrieve the value with simple queries on the data like: > col1 like %ab&,
What does the ampersand mean? > col2 like %aa% Lucene doesn't handle queries where the start of the term is not known very efficiently. > and col3 sounds like aaaa; No experience with this, but you could probably use the Soundex encoder from http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/codec/ for transforming words before indexing them (and before searching for them). -- Eric Jain --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]