lucene boolean search

Question

I want to know how lucene find documents matching a boolean query like this: "+a +b c", I mean what's its algorithm?

Thanks

Try looking at the Lucene source, docs or posting to the mailing list — Joel, Oct 08 '11 at 12:08

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '11 at 02:16

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answered Oct 10 '11 at 02:16

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 10 '11 at 21:48

Please check Apache Lucene - Query Parser Syntax. It helped me to understand the algorithm

"+a +b c" means that you are searching for documents that MUST contain "a" AND MUST contain "b" and MIGHT contain "c" --> For example the matches are: "b a", "a b c", "wkfkjwfk32 a b", "kj2h4rkj2 a kjhgkk b" in any order [a and b are required, and c is optional]

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