no i actually changed the directory to mine where i stored the log files.. it is /home/exam/apa..solr/example/exampledocs
i specified it in a solr schema.. i created an DataImportHandler for that in try.xml.. then in that i changed that file name to sample.txt that new try.xml is http://pastebin.com/pfVVA7Hs i changed the log into one word per line thinking there might be error in my regex expression.. now i'm completely stuck.. ----- DINESHKUMAR . M I am neither especially clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Getting-started-with-writing-parser-tp2278092p2327920.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.