Re: Runtime full text search like in Microsoft Windows Search

2005-07-15 Thread Erik Hatcher
On Jul 15, 2005, at 3:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If Microsoft Search does as you describe. Isn't it just: 1) Open file 2) Determine file type 3) Convert file content to UTF8, if text based, and you have the API to read it. .html, .txt., .doc, .excel, etc. 4) Perform string search, rege

Re: Runtime full text search like in Microsoft Windows Search

2005-07-15 Thread Otis Gospodnetic
As somebody already said, you can have an in-memory index with RAMDirectory. You can also pre-build a Lucene index on that CD - CD is "static", you can't add/remove/change files on it, so you can build an index and burn it onto the CD at the same time when you put the Word files on it. As for get

RE: Runtime full text search like in Microsoft Windows Search

2005-07-15 Thread Nathan Brackett
I imagine you could index the info you wanted to quickly search on into a RAMDirectory (assuming it wasn't too much info), then run simple or complex searches on that, but I that might take longer to do than simple regex searching on files. That would only give you a gain if you were going to run r

Re: Runtime full text search like in Microsoft Windows Search

2005-07-15 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If Microsoft Search does as you describe. Isn't it just: 1) Open file 2) Determine file type 3) Convert file content to UTF8, if text based, and you have the API to read it. .html, .txt., .doc, .excel, etc. 4) Perform string search, regex. 5) Continue to next file As far as I know, Lucene is n