Hi
The problem may well lie with the reading of the queries from disk into your program. Using an InputStreamReader with correct encoding (UTF-8?) should solve it. -- Ian. On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Laura Hollink <lau...@cs.vu.nl> wrote: > Hi, > > I have built an index using the standardAnalyser, and am now querying that > index, also with standardAnalyser. However, I get results I don't > understand. > > I know there are a few documents about Brazil in my corpus. My corpus is in > Dutch, and the Dutch term used is "Brazilië". > > I query the index in three ways for the string "Brazilië" > 1) by entering a query in the command line > 2) by hardcoding the query in my java code > 3) by reading in a query file, with one query in it. > > The first two give me documents back, but the latter doesn't. > > ###CODE SNIPPET#### > > QueryParser parser = new QueryParser("skos:prefLabel",new > StandardAnalyzer());//the field that I need is called skos:prefLabel. > Directory fsDir = FSDirectory.getDirectory(indexDir, false); > IndexSearcher is = new IndexSearcher(fsDir); > > //1) Query is command line argument > Query query = parser.parse(queryarg); > System.out.println(query.toString()); > Hits hits = is.search(query); > System.out.println(hits.length()); > > //2) Query is hardcoded > query = parser.parse("Brazilië"); > System.out.println(query.toString()); > hits = is.search(query); > System.out.println(hits.length()); > > //3) Query is in separate queryfile called testquery.txt > query = parser.parse(queries[0]); //queries is a String[] in which I read > all (in this case only one) queries from the file testquery.txt > System.out.println(query.toString()); > hits = is.search(query); > System.out.println(hits.length()); > > ################# > > > Now when I execute my code with: > java MyQueryPoser2 Brazilië > > I get: > skos:prefLabel:brazili? > 4 > skos:prefLabel:brazili? > 4 > skos:prefLabel:brazili > 0 > > The parsed queries are different and the resultlists are different for the > three methods. Why doesn't the query from file give my any results? > > I am working on a mac. Could this be due to some special file encoding? > > The queryfile does contain the right string: > lauras-macbook-pro:MetLucene laura$ cat testquery.txt > Brazilië > > > thanks for any help. > > Laura > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org