Something like this will work:
BooleanQuery query = new BooleanQuery();
query.add(new MatchAllDocsQuery(), Occur.MUST);
query.add(new BooleanClause(termQuery, Occur.MUST_NOT));
On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Paul Bell <arach...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've done a few experiments in Lucene 4.2 with several different query
> types:
>
> TermQuery
> TermRangeQuery
> NumericRangeQuery
> WildcardQuery
> PrefixQuery
> MatchAllDocsQuery
>
> I think I more or less understand their behavior.
>
> But I'm missing something obvious: how does one do "not equal" type
> queries? For example, suppose I want to find all documents whose "name"
> field is not equal to a given value...
>
> Thank you.
>
> -Paul
>
