query.toString() is your friend, as is Luke <G>. Two things are
often the problem here.
1> your index doesn't contain what you think it does. Luke helps a LOT here.
2> your regex isn't doing what you think, toString() whould help here
Best
Erick
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Agrawal, Aashish (IT) <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Steven
>
> thanks for pointing to the example of RegexQuery.
>
> I have a simple code snippet which is not working, not sure if I am
> using it incorrectly.
> ----
> RegexQuery query = new RegexQuery (new Term (field, line));
> query.setRegexImplementation(new JavaUtilRegexCapabilities());
> System.out.println("Searching for: " + query.toString(field));
> Hits hits = searcher.search(query);
> --------
>
> I am searching a sample file like below -
> ---
> agrawal fdfdf
> fsdfafasf 3495549584
> fsfsfs fsffsf r4e3fdere j4343
> ---------
>
> when I search this file with pattern -
> .*4343*
> .*[a-z]4343
> j4343
> or even search for 3495549584
>
> all are failing with result no match found..
>
> could you point me what is wrong here ?? Also if I try to search *4343*,
> it throws exception,, shouldn't * at start be allowed with regexQuery ?
>
>
> thanks
> Aashish Agrawal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven A Rowe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 12:31 AM
> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: RE: example on RegexQuery
>
> Hi Aashish,
>
> On 10/24/2008 at 3:35 AM, Agrawal, Aashish (IT) wrote:
> > I want to use lucene for a simple search engine with regex support .
> > I tried using RegexQuery.. but seems I am missing something.
> > Is there any working exmaple on using RegexQuery ??
>
> How about TestRegexQuery?:
>
> <http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/java/tags/lucene_2_4_0/contrib/rege
> x/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/regex/TestRegexQuery.java?view=marku<http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/lucene/java/tags/lucene_2_4_0/contrib/regex/src/test/org/apache/lucene/search/regex/TestRegexQuery.java?view=marku>
> p>
>
> Steve
>
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