Hi Kendall,
"Position" and "Offset" are often confused in Lucene ;)
Lucene uses offset to track what you referred to ("(character, not byte)
offset into a text file", or into an indexed string).
Lucene uses position to track the Nth token: position 0 is first token,
position 1 is the second toke
Hello, Kendall.
You can read about Token Position Increments at
https://lucene.apache.org/core/9_2_0/core/org/apache/lucene/analysis/package-summary.html#package.description
Usually position is a number of word and offset is a number of symbol.
Modeling entries via positions is boilerplate, I supp
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out if I should be learning to use Lucene. I
imagine wanting to provide a user with a way to search for something and
present that found thing, in some way. If what is ultimately searched is
text files, then position would be an offset into the text file, I
think. But
