Lucene.net search engine

Question

I have a folder with 20 text files in it. and I wish to index this folder and search for any keyword among these files.

How can I do this in C#?

What about "not with lucene"? Any reason you willfully ignore what Windows offers (search service), jsut for adding anotehr software? Or do you have a reason that you prefer not to state? — TomTom, Mar 07 '11 at 07:55

score 4 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 22 '11 at 06:20

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This is a nice introduction to lucene.Net:

Introducing Lucene.Net (CodeProject)

It covers the basics of how to create an index, add documents to the index and finally how to search your index.

edited Feb 22 '11 at 06:20

Midhat

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answered Feb 22 '11 at 06:14

Justin

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is this still up to date? – Joh Apr 22 '16 at 06:43

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 03 '13 at 17:32

1) Use this code to load all your file contents into a List():

var files = new List<string>();
foreach (var filePath in System.IO.Directory.EnumerateFiles("path_to_your_files")) {
    files.Add(System.IO.File.ReadAllText(filePath));
}

2) Read my article on how to setup basic Lucene.Net search:
Lucene.Net ultra fast search for MVC or WebForms site => made easy!

3) Instead of the static data in that article, use the data from your text files you got in step #1.

I hope that'll help!

Lucene.net search engine

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