Re: Questions about the Lucene query language

2014-10-28 Thread Prad Nelluru
Thanks, Jack! From: Jack Krupansky j...@basetechnology.com Sent: Monday, October 27, 2014 8:41 PM To: java-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Questions about the Lucene query language Pure negative queries are not supported, but all you need to do

Questions about the Lucene query language

2014-10-27 Thread Prad Nelluru
Hi everyone, I'm trying to understand how to use the Lucene query language. 1. Does Lucene support negative phrase queries like -hello dolly ? Or do I need to subtract from some other term like: joy -hello dolly ? My intention is to find all documents that do not have the words hello

Re: Questions about the Lucene query language

2014-10-27 Thread Jack Krupansky
@lucene.apache.org Subject: Questions about the Lucene query language Hi everyone, I'm trying to understand how to use the Lucene query language. 1. Does Lucene support negative phrase queries like -hello dolly ? Or do I need to subtract from some other term like: joy -hello dolly ? My intention