a blind man in a dark cellar looking for a black cat that isn't there
not again in all the world's turning will there be terrains so wild and barbarous to try whether the stuff of creation may be shaped to man's will or whether his own heart is not another kind of clay
A walkthrough of a Lucene span-based search, using a combination of SpanNot, SpanOr and SpanNear queries. We also take a quick look at an alternative approach using Lucene’s Standard Query Parser with interval functions.