> What I want to do is pass to a Lucene method some text, and have it return > the text that it would normally put into the index.
The part of Lucene that does this is called the Analyzer. There are quite a few Analyzers in the Lucene distribution, depending on the text you plan to process, so you'll still have to choose one, but the Analyzer interface is exactly what you want -- InputStream in, tokens out. Start with SimpleAnalyzer and then you can get more sophisticated with regards to tokenization (what constitutes a word) and normalization (transformations applied to words, such as removing little words like "and" and "of", or lopping the s off plurals, etc.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
