1) There's no need to send the same message twice just because you didn't get a rapid response to hte first one ... in most parts of hte US this has been a three day weekend, so it's not that suprising that no one wrote a reply yet since the first time you asked this question friday night.
2) you need to be carefully about your terminology... : I would like to know how many total results were found for my search. In : other words, if a Document contains the word or phrase more than once, I : would like to know this information so that I can return a "true" count of : search results that were found across all of my Documents. It seems that The total results of your search is Hits.length(). 1 result is 1 matching document. what you are asking for is information about the frequency of a word or phrase. The TermEnum class makes it easy to find out the frequency of a term in your entire index. The frequency of a phrase is more complicated. I would suggest you start by looking at the documenation on Similarity and the way scores are calculated. I believe that it is possible to write an implimentation of Similarity that will result in the raw score of a PhraseQuery on any document being the number of times that phrase appears in the document. You will then need to use a HitCollector to sum the raw scores so they don't get normalized for you. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]