Thanks a lot for your quick support! I found another site which describes the index structure and files. http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/fileformats.html
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- AFAIK Lucene will have an inverted index which maps tokens (terms) to the documents that they appear in. Some background info on inverted indices: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_index Miles -------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Wednesday 03 May 2006 14:56, Mathias Keilbach wrote: > I have a question concerning the interal searching behavior of lucene. How > does lucene get a hit. If I search for the a term, will each index document > be checked for this term or is there an internal relation between terms and > lucene documents? Thanks for any advice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]