issue resolved I should have read the documentation with more care; "Calculate the distance between two strings"
my city field was a tokenized text field so changing it to string type got things working sorry all -- View this message in context: http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/can-t-use-strdist-as-functionquery-tp1023390p1058059.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
