Wouldn't that also match names with length > 20?
-- Ian. On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Jack Krupansky <jack.krupan...@lucidimagination.com> wrote: > A wildcard query with 10 leading question marks, each of which requires a > single character. This would also depend on leading wildcards being enabled > in your query parser (if you are using one.) > > first_name:??????????* > > The performance would not necessarily be great, but functionally it would do > exactly what you asked. > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Camden Daily > Sent: Friday, January 21, 2011 10:15 AM > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: Performing a query on token length > > Hello all, > > Does anyone know if it is possible in Lucene to do a query based on the > string length of the value of a field? > > For example, if I wanted all index matches where a specific field like > 'first_name' was between 10 and 20 characters. > > Thanks! > -Camden Daily > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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