From lucene-user-return-5925-apmail-jakarta-lucene-user-archive=jakarta.apache.org@jakarta.apache.org Wed Nov 12 09:28:13 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 84876 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2003 09:28:12 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by minotaur-2.apache.org with SMTP; 12 Nov 2003 09:28:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 69863 invoked by uid 500); 12 Nov 2003 09:27:43 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-lucene-user-archive@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 69831 invoked by uid 500); 12 Nov 2003 09:27:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Lucene Users List" Reply-To: "Lucene Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 69816 invoked from network); 12 Nov 2003 09:27:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO expasy-ng.isb-sib.ch) (192.33.215.142) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 12 Nov 2003 09:27:42 -0000 Received: from caliente (router.isb-sib.ch [192.33.215.254]) (authenticated bits=0) by expasy-ng.isb-sib.ch (8.12.10/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hAC9Rqm3030707 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:27:52 +0100 Message-ID: <00e201c3a8ff$40b77e80$c300000a@caliente> From: "Eric Jain" To: "Lucene Users List" References: <20031112030014.86306.qmail@web13903.mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Can use Lucene be used for this Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:27:55 +0100 Organization: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 X-sib-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-sib-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: minotaur-2.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N > 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: lucene-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: lucene-user-help@jakarta.apache.org