Text Search...

[ankur rathi]

What are the different ways available for text search. We are using Lucene for it. One more I know is from String API (String Tokenizer...). Could any body please tell me others which are more efficient....

Thanks a lot.

[Ta Ri Ki Sun]

Originally posted by rathi ji:
What are the different ways available for text search. We are using Lucene for it. One more I know is from String API (String Tokenizer...). Could any body please tell me others which are more efficient....

Thanks a lot.

Have you looked at regular expressions?
If not browse the java.util.regex package

[Rick O'Shay]

As you probably know, Lucene is an engine and an API for indexing text files and imposing your own grammars. Simple tokenizing is fine if you're not going to create an index for more efficient repeated searching. Tokenizing will not buy you proximity searches, stemming, fuzzy logic, common word filtering, and so on. Lucene is overkill for something like this:

int found = "All your base are belong to us".indexOf("base");

[ankur rathi]

Originally posted by Ta Ri Ki Sun:


Have you looked at regular expressions?
If not browse the java.util.regex package

No, But I think it is for string validation (providing restriction).

[Stan James]

Take a look at Pattern and Matcher in JDK 1.4 or later. You can use Regex for validation, searching, replacing, parsing, doing the dishes ... no, not that. Anyhow, it's a great way to find substrings that match patterns instead of exactly matching another string like indexOf. Regex can be a bit intimidating to get started with. Feel free to post almost-working code here for more help!