Re: lucene newbie question

2006-10-02 Thread Los Morales
MAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: java-user@lucene.apache.org To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: lucene newbie question Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:12:25 -0400 On Oct 2, 2006, at 2:08 PM, Los Morales wrote: I'm new to Lucene and IR in general. I'm a bit confused on the concept of fields. From

lucene newbie question

2006-10-02 Thread Los Morales
Hi, I'm new to Lucene and IR in general. I'm a bit confused on the concept of fields. From what I've read, a field does not have to be indexed but its value can be stored in an index. Likewise a field can be indexed but its value is not stored in an index. Now how can a field be searchable