private static final DecimalFormat formatter =
new DecimalFormat("00000"); // make this as wide as you need
For ints, ten digits is probably safest. Since Lucene uses prefix compression on the term dictionary, you don't pay a penalty at search time for long shared prefixes.
Doug
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