Luther
RegexQuery might work, or how about splitting the digit string out into dates and search for them e.g. 110001111 could be stored as "avail: jan03 jan04 jan05" and a search for +avail:jan03 +avail:jan04 +avail:jan05 would get a hit. -- Ian. On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:34 PM, luther blisset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi folks, > I'm new to Lucene and I'm looking for a way to search a substring that > starts at a fixed position. > It isn't a classical substring search because it's a bit weird. > I indexed a field that represents the avability of a room in a hostal during > 1 year. > The field is composed by 365 digits and each digit represents 1 day and it > can be set at 0 (available) or 1 (not available). Thus a string like this: > 110001111...(continues with ones until the position 365) > means that the hostal is available from 3rd until 5th of January. > And now the problem... > Suppose that I want to search if an hostal is available from 3rd to 5th of > January... > I'd have to use wildcards and search a string like this: > ??000????...(continues with ? until the position 365) > I think this way is not a good one and is too bad for the application > perfomance. > Is there a way to ask Lucene to search starting from a fixed position? > For instance, regard to the example above, could I search a 000 starting to > search at the third position? > I hope all was clear and you can help me because I've no idea how to solve > the problem. > Thanks a lot! > > Luther > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Searching-substring-starting-at-a-fixed-position-tp19432922p19432922.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
