That is a clever idea. I would still prefer something cleaner but this could work. Thanks!
On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 10:11 PM Michael Sokolov <msoko...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know of any pre-existing thing that does exactly this, but how > about a token filter that counts tokens (or positions maybe), and then > appends some special token encoding the length? > > On Sat, Dec 28, 2019, 9:36 AM Matt Davis <kryptonics...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if it is possible to search for the number of tokens in a > > text field. For example find book titles with 3 or more words. I don't > > mind adding a field that is the number of tokens to the search index but > I > > would like to avoid analyzing the text two times. Can Lucene search for > > the number of tokens in a text field? Or can I get the number of tokens > > after analysis and add it to the Lucene document before/during indexing? > > Or do I need to analysis the text myself and add the field to the > document > > (analyze the text twice, once myself, once in the IndexWriter). > > > > Thanks, > > Matt Davis > > >
