Thanks for the info. The Date formatter doesn't work because it can only deal with positive longs. My problem was how to handle the negatives but I got it figured out.
Thanks! --- Lucene Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quick reference: > > http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/SearchNumericalFields > > If you are stuck, you can always encode the long in a string format (the > date formatter in lucene might do this already). Or even, you could also > treat it like a date and use your long like a date filter. > > HTH, > sv > > On 6 May 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > What's the best way to store numbers for range searching? If someone > > has some info about this I'd love to see it. > > > > This is my current plan: > > When I convert the number to a string I will zero pad it so range searches > > work. The conversions will be like this for integers: > > 1 to 10000000001 > > > > 2 to 10000000002 > > 1000 to 10000001000 > > > > I'm just adding a "1" to the > > start of the string (or adding 1000000000). This is so negative numbers work > > too! They will just be subtracted from a long (1000000000): > > -1 to 09999999999 > > > > -2 to 09999999998 > > -1000 to 09999999000 > > > > This works great for range > > searches. But how do I convert negative longs? I can't subtract 1000000000000000000 > > from a long can I? It too big to fit in another long. > > > > Any advice is appreciated! > > > > -Reece > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
