Thank you Ian and Jack, I believe I'll go with simply creating a NumericField for the length, as that will result in the best performance.
-Camden On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
