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Posted to java-user@lucene.apache.org by "Kevin A. Burton" <bu...@newsmonster.org> on 2004/02/24 21:25:28 UTC

Re: can't delete from an index using IndexReader.delete()

Dhruba Borthakur wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I am using the latest and greatest Lucene jar file and am facing a 
> problem with
> deleting documents from the index. Browsing the mail archive, I found 
> that the
> following email (June 2003) listed the exact problem that I am 
> encountering.
>
> In short: I am using Field.text("id", "value") to mark a document. 
> Then I use
> reader.delete(new Term("id", "value")) to remove the document: this
> call returns 0 and fails to delete the document. The attached sample 
> program
> shows this behaviour.

Agreed... you're values might be indexed... try adding them as Tokens...

Kevin

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