> > you're missing the key piece that Ard alluded to ... the > there is one > > ordere list of all terms stored in the index ... a TermEnum lets you > > iterate over this ordered list, and the > IndexReader.terms(Term) method > > lets you efficiently start at an arbitrary term. if you are only > > interested in terms for a specific field, once your > TermEnum returns a > > differnet field, you can stop -- you will never get any > more terms for > > the field you care about (hence Ard's terms.term().field() > == field in his > > loop conditional) > Ok, I wasn't aware of that - I thought that Ards while loop would be > wrong,
I am deeply hurt by your distrust. :-) Ard
