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Deleting All Documents With Certain Field Name

Would this not delete all records from the index that have a saleDate field?

reader.delete(new Term("salesDate", ""));

Thanks,

Luke


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Re: Deleting All Documents With Certain Field Name

Posted by Otis Gospodnetic <ot...@yahoo.com>.
No.  The delete method deletes all Documents with _matching_ terms.

Otis

--- Luke <lu...@lukeshannon.com> wrote:

> Would this not delete all records from the index that have a saleDate
> field?
> 
> reader.delete(new Term("salesDate", ""));
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Luke
> 
> 
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