if you need that to "Highlight" the document as google or altavista, take a look at the contributors section, a guy Mark had the main idea and also implemented it. I have a better version that may be i'll send to the mailing list, but it is wrote in C (actually C++) and have been tested on Win NT. It is a Java compatible Library (DLL). Bye.
-- On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 18:23:17 Chris Sibert wrote: >Does the Lucene index keep track of where in the original document it found each >term's occurrence ? > >For example: Lucene is indexing a file, and one of the terms found was "banana", and >"banana" occurred in the file 3 times. Does Lucene save in the index where it found >each occurrence of "banana" ? So for example, I could go to the file's offset of >position 100 and find "banana". For that matter, does Lucene know that it was found >three times, or just that it was found ? > >The reason I ask is that when a user searches for something, I might like to just >display snippets of the original file where the term was found, instead of the whole >thing, because some of the files are quite large. > > > _____________________________________________________ Supercharge your e-mail with a 25MB Inbox, POP3 Access, No Ads and NoTaglines --> LYCOS MAIL PLUS. http://www.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
