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Posted to solr-user@lucene.apache.org by David Whalen <dw...@enr-corp.com> on 2007/09/06 22:48:51 UTC

searching where a value is not null?

Hi all.

I'm trying to construct a query that in pseudo-code would read
like this:

field != ''

I'm finding it difficult to write this as a solr query, though.
Stuff like:

NOT field:()

doesn't seem to do the trick.

any ideas?

dw

Re: searching where a value is not null?

Posted by Yonik Seeley <yo...@apache.org>.
On 9/6/07, David Whalen <dw...@enr-corp.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> I'm trying to construct a query that in pseudo-code would read
> like this:
>
> field != ''
>
> I'm finding it difficult to write this as a solr query, though.
> Stuff like:
>
> NOT field:()
>
> doesn't seem to do the trick.
>
> any ideas?

perhaps field:[* TO *]

-Yonik