RE: sort non-roman character strings last

2011-10-25 Thread Jaeger, Jay - DOT
t the same thing as: String silly = ""; JRJ -Original Message- From: themanwho [mailto:theman...@mac.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 9:22 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: RE: sort non-roman character strings last Jay, Thanks, good call on the pattern.

RE: sort non-roman character strings last

2011-10-25 Thread themanwho
Jay, Thanks, good call on the pattern. Still, my embedded question: if a field is filtered down to a zero-length string, does this qualify as "missing" so far as sortMissingLast is concerned? If not, your suggestion should work fine -- appreciated!! Cheers, Bill -- View this message in context:

RE: sort non-roman character strings last

2011-10-25 Thread Jaeger, Jay - DOT
Could you replace it with something that will sort it last instead of an empty string? (Say, for example, replacement="{}"). This would still give something that looks empty to a person, and would sort last. BTW, it looks to me as though your pattern only requires that the input contain just