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<p>Although Lucene provides the ability to create your own query's though its API, it also provides a rich query language through the QueryParser.</p>
<p>This page provides syntax of Lucene's Query Parser, a lexer which interprets a string into a Lucene Query using JavaCC.</p>
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<p>A query is broken up into terms and operators. There are two types of terms: Single Terms and Phrases.</p>
<p>A Single Term is a single word such as "test" or "hello".</p>
<p>A Phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes such as "hello dolly".</p>
<p>Multiple terms can be combined together with Boolean operators to form a more complex query (see below).</p>
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<p>Lucene supports fielded data. When performing a search you can either specify a field, or use the default field. The field names and default field is implementation specific.</p>
<p>You can search any field by typing the field name followed by a colon ":" and then the term you are looking for. </p>
<p>As an example, let's assume a Lucene index contains two fields, title and text and text is the default field.
If you want to find the document entitled "The Right Way" which contains the text "don't go this way", you can enter: </p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>title:&quot;The Right Way&quot; AND text:go</pre></td>
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<p>or</p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>title:&quot;Do it right&quot; AND right</pre></td>
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<p>Since text is the default field, the field indicator is not required.</p>
<p>Note: The field is only valid for the term that it directly precedes, so the query</p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>title:Do it right</pre></td>
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<p>Will only find "Do" in the title field. It will find "it" and "right" in the default field (in this case the text field). </p>
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<p>Lucene supports modifying query terms to provide a wide range of searching options.</p>
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<p>Lucene supports single and multiple character wildcard searches.</p>
<p>To perform a single character wildcard search use the "?" symbol.</p>
<p>To perform a multiple character wildcard search use the "*" symbol.</p>
<p>The single character wildcard search looks for terms that match that with the single character replaced. For example, to search for "text" or "test" you can use the search:</p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>te?t</pre></td>
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<p>Multiple character wildcard searches looks for 0 or more characters. For example, to search for test, tests or tester, you can use the search: </p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>test*</pre></td>
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<p>You can also use the wildcard searches in the middle of a term.</p>
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<p>Note: You cannot use a * or ? symbol as the first character of a search.</p>
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<p>Lucene supports fuzzy searches based on the Levenshtein Distance, or Edit Distance algorithm. To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a term. For example to search for a term similar in spelling to "roam" use the fuzzy search: </p>
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<p>This search will find terms like foam and roams</p>
<p>Note:Terms found by the fuzzy search will automatically get a boost factor of 0.2</p>
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<p>Lucene provides the relevance level of matching documents based on the terms found. To boost a term use the caret, "^", symbol with a boost factor (a number) at the end of the term you are searching. The higher the boost factor, the more relevant the term will be.</p>
<p>Boosting allows you to control the relevance of a document by boosting its term. For example, if you are searching for</p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>IBM Microsoft</pre></td>
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<p>and you want the term "IBM" to be more relevant boost it using the ^ symbol along with the boost factor next to the term. You would type:</p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>IBM^4 Microsoft</pre></td>
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<p>This will make documents with the term IBM appear more relevant. You can also boost Phrase Terms as in the example: </p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;Microsoft Word&quot;^4 &quot;Microsoft Excel&quot;</pre></td>
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<p>The OR operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is used.
The OR operator links two terms and finds a matching document if either of the terms exist in a document. This is equivalent to a union using sets.
For example to search for documents that contain either "Microsoft Word" or just "Microsoft": </p>
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<p>The AND operator matches documents where both terms exist anywhere in the text of a single document.
This is equivalent to an intersection using sets.
For example to search for documents that contain "Microsoft Word" and "Microsoft Excel": </p>
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<p>The "+" or required operator requires that the term after the "+" symbol exist somewhere in a the field of a single document. For example, to search for documents that contain jakarta or lucene:</p>
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<p>The NOT operator excludes documents that contain the term after NOT.
This is equivalent to a difference using sets.
For example to search for documents that contain "Microsoft Word" but not "Microsoft Excel": </p>
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<p>The "-" or prohibit operator excludes documents that contain the term after the "-" symbol. For example to search for documents that contain "Microsoft Word" but not "Microsoft Excel": </p>
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<td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;Microsoft Word&quot; -&quot;Microsoft Excel&quot;</pre></td>
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<p>Lucene supports using parentheses to group clauses to form sub queries. This can be very useful if you want to control the boolean logic for a query.
For example, to search for either "jakarta" or "apache" and "website":</p>
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<p>This eliminates any confusion and makes sure you that website must exist and either term jakarta or apache may exist.</p>
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May 15, 2002, 4:29 PM
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Make Query Parser Syntax documentation live. Added Proximity Searching, Escaping.

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<p>A Single Term is a single word such as "test" or "hello".</p>
<p>A Phrase is a group of words surrounded by double quotes such as "hello dolly".</p>
<p>Multiple terms can be combined together with Boolean operators to form a more complex query (see below).</p>
+ <p>Note: The analyzer used to create the index will be used on the terms and phrases in the query string.
+ So it is important to choose an analyzer that will not interfere with the terms used in the query string.</p>
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- <p>Lucene supports fuzzy searches based on the Levenshtein Distance, or Edit Distance algorithm. To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a term. For example to search for a term similar in spelling to "roam" use the fuzzy search: </p>
+ <p>Lucene supports fuzzy searches based on the Levenshtein Distance, or Edit Distance algorithm. To do a fuzzy search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a Single word Term. For example to search for a term similar in spelling to "roam" use the fuzzy search: </p>
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+ <a name="Proximity Searches"><strong>Proximity Searches</strong></a>
+ </font>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>Lucene supports finding words are a within a specific distance away. To do a proximity search use the tilde, "~", symbol at the end of a Phrase. For example to search for a "apache" and "jakarta" within 10 words of each other in a document use the search: </p>
+ <div align="left">
+ <table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
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+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;jakarta apache&quot;~10</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
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+ </table>
+ </div>
+ </blockquote>
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+ </table>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+ <tr><td bgcolor="#828DA6">
+ <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
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- <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>IBM Microsoft</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>jakarta apache</pre></td>
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- <p>and you want the term "IBM" to be more relevant boost it using the ^ symbol along with the boost factor next to the term. You would type:</p>
+ <p>and you want the term "jakarta" to be more relevant boost it using the ^ symbol along with the boost factor next to the term.
+ You would type:</p>
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- <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>IBM^4 Microsoft</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>jakarta^4 apache</pre></td>
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- <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;Microsoft Word&quot;^4 &quot;Microsoft Excel&quot;</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;jakarta apache&quot;^4 &quot;jakarta lucene&quot;</pre></td>
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<p>The OR operator is the default conjunction operator. This means that if there is no Boolean operator between two terms, the OR operator is used.
The OR operator links two terms and finds a matching document if either of the terms exist in a document. This is equivalent to a union using sets.
- For example to search for documents that contain either "Microsoft Word" or just "Microsoft": </p>
+ The symbol || can be used in place of the word OR.</p>
+ <p>To search for documents that contain either "jakarta apache" or just "jakarta" use the query:</p>
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- <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;Microsoft Word&quot; Microsoft</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;jakarta apache&quot; jakarta</pre></td>
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- <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;Microsoft Word&quot; OR Microsoft</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;jakarta apache&quot; OR jakarta</pre></td>
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<p>The AND operator matches documents where both terms exist anywhere in the text of a single document.
- This is equivalent to an intersection using sets.
- For example to search for documents that contain "Microsoft Word" and "Microsoft Excel": </p>
+ This is equivalent to an intersection using sets. The symbol &amp;&amp; can be used in place of the word AND.</p>
+ <p>To search for documents that contain "jakarta apache" and "jakarta lucene" use the query: </p>
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- <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;Microsoft Word&quot; AND &quot;Microsoft Excel&quot;</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;jakarta apache&quot; AND &quot;jakarta lucene&quot;</pre></td>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
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<tr><td>
<blockquote>
- <p>The "+" or required operator requires that the term after the "+" symbol exist somewhere in a the field of a single document. For example, to search for documents that contain jakarta or lucene:</p>
+ <p>The "+" or required operator requires that the term after the "+" symbol exist somewhere in a the field of a single document.</p>
+ <p>To search for documents that must contain "jakarta" and may contain "lucene" use the query:</p>
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@@ -545,8 +582,8 @@
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<blockquote>
<p>The NOT operator excludes documents that contain the term after NOT.
- This is equivalent to a difference using sets.
- For example to search for documents that contain "Microsoft Word" but not "Microsoft Excel": </p>
+ This is equivalent to a difference using sets. The symbol ! can be used in place of the word NOT.</p>
+ <p>To search for documents that contain "jakarta apache" but not "jakarta lucene" use the query: </p>
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@@ -556,7 +593,27 @@
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<tr>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
- <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;Microsoft Word&quot; NOT &quot;Microsoft Excel&quot;</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;jakarta apache&quot; NOT &quot;jakarta lucene&quot;</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+ <p>Note: The NOT operator cannot be used with just one term. For example, the following search will return no results:</p>
+ <div align="left">
+ <table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>NOT &quot;jakarta apache&quot;</pre></td>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
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- <p>The "-" or prohibit operator excludes documents that contain the term after the "-" symbol. For example to search for documents that contain "Microsoft Word" but not "Microsoft Excel": </p>
+ <p>The "-" or prohibit operator excludes documents that contain the term after the "-" symbol.</p>
+ <p>To search for documents that contain "jakarta apache" but not "jakarta lucene" use the query: </p>
<div align="left">
<table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
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@@ -588,7 +646,7 @@
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<tr>
<td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
- <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;Microsoft Word&quot; -&quot;Microsoft Excel&quot;</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>&quot;jakarta apache&quot; -&quot;jakarta lucene&quot;</pre></td>
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- <p>Lucene supports using parentheses to group clauses to form sub queries. This can be very useful if you want to control the boolean logic for a query.
- For example, to search for either "jakarta" or "apache" and "website":</p>
+ <p>Lucene supports using parentheses to group clauses to form sub queries. This can be very useful if you want to control the boolean logic for a query.</p>
+ <p>To search for either "jakarta" or "apache" and "website" use the query:</p>
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<tr>
@@ -637,6 +695,41 @@
</table>
</div>
<p>This eliminates any confusion and makes sure you that website must exist and either term jakarta or apache may exist.</p>
+ </blockquote>
+ </p>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td><br/></td></tr>
+ </table>
+ <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%">
+ <tr><td bgcolor="#525D76">
+ <font color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">
+ <a name="Escaping Special Characters"><strong>Escaping Special Characters</strong></a>
+ </font>
+ </td></tr>
+ <tr><td>
+ <blockquote>
+ <p>Lucene supports escaping special characters that are part of the query syntax. The current list special characters are</p>
+ <p>+ - &amp;&amp; || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \</p>
+ <p>To escape these character use the \ before the character. For example to search for (1+1):2 use the query:</p>
+ <div align="left">
+ <table cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0" border="0">
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#ffffff"><pre>\(1\+1\)\:2</pre></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ <td bgcolor="#023264" width="1" height="1"><img src="/images/void.gif" width="1" height="1" vspace="0" hspace="0" border="0"/></td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
</blockquote>
</p>
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May 15, 2002, 10:16 PM
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Modified: docs queryparsersyntax.html
Log:
Update website to include Query Parser syntax in resources area.

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</li>
<li> <a href="./resources.html">Articles</a>
</li>
+ <li> <a href="./queryparsersyntax.html">Query Syntax</a>
+</li>
<li> <a href="./api/index.html">Javadoc</a>
</li>
<li> <a href="./contributions.html">Contributions</a>




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May 16, 2002, 7:04 AM
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Modified: docs queryparsersyntax.html
Log:
Fixed a typo when converting from the term IBM to the term jakarta in the boosting example.

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@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@
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- <p>This will make documents with the term IBM appear more relevant. You can also boost Phrase Terms as in the example: </p>
+ <p>This will make documents with the term jakarta appear more relevant. You can also boost Phrase Terms as in the example: </p>
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- <p>By default, the boost factor is 1.</p>
+ <p>By default, the boost factor is 1. Although, the boost factor must be positive, it can be less than 1 (i.e. .2)</p>
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