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            </th><th class="nameColumn">Name</th><th class="descriptionColumn">Description</th></tr><tr data="public;declared;notNetfw;"><td><img src="../icons/pubmethod.gif" alt="Public method" title="Public method" /></td><td><a href="dc7ae669-8858-d9f0-348d-2bfb3e9ed30d.htm">SetValue(<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cpp">array&lt;</span></span>Byte<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cpp">&gt;</span><span class="cs">[]</span><span class="vb">()</span><span class="nu">[]</span><span class="fs">[]</span></span>)</a></td><td><div class="summary">Expert: change the value of this field.  See <a href="#setValue(java.lang.String)">setValue(String)</a>. </div></td></tr><tr data="public;declared;notNetfw;"><td><img src="../icons/pubmethod.gif" alt="Public method" title="Public method" /></td><td><a href="68ceef72-5713-0c9c-1963-25ef1dda4409.htm">SetValue(TextReader)</a></td><td><div class="summary">Expert: change the value of this field.  See <a href="#setValue(java.lang.String)">setValue(String)</a>. </div></td></tr><tr data="public;declared;notNetfw;"><td><img src="../icons/pubmethod.gif" alt="Public method" title="Public method" /></td><td><a href="1c87295d-e49a-6a9d-748c-2e1fa130e507.htm">SetValue(String)</a></td><td><div class="summary"><p />Expert: change the value of this field.  This can
            be used during indexing to re-use a single Field
            instance to improve indexing speed by avoiding GC cost
            of new'ing and reclaiming Field instances.  Typically
            a single {@link Document} instance is re-used as
            well.  This helps most on small documents.<p /><p />Each Field instance should only be used once
            within a single {@link Document} instance.  See <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/lucene-java/ImproveIndexingSpeed">ImproveIndexingSpeed</a>
            for details.<p /></div></td></tr><tr data="public;declared;notNetfw;"><td><img src="../icons/pubmethod.gif" alt="Public method" title="Public method" /></td><td><a href="8e5fa26d-2ac2-8a5f-059c-98caab194b8c.htm">SetValue(TokenStream)</a></td><td> <font color="red"><b>Obsolete. </b></font><div class="summary">Expert: change the value of this field.  See <a href="#setValue(java.lang.String)">setValue(String)</a>.</div></td></tr><tr data="public;declared;notNetfw;"><td><img src="../icons/pubmethod.gif" alt="Public method" title="Public method" /></td><td><a href="ee51bb40-4b5b-f1a0-1701-5b95f5a7c8be.htm">SetValue(<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cpp">array&lt;</span></span>Byte<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cpp">&gt;</span><span class="cs">[]</span><span class="vb">()</span><span class="nu">[]</span><span class="fs">[]</span></span>, Int32, Int32)</a></td><td><div class="summary">Expert: change the value of this field.  See <a href="#setValue(java.lang.String)">setValue(String)</a>. </div></td></tr></table></div><h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(seeAlsoToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(seeAlsoToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="seeAlsoToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />See Also</span></h1><div id="seeAlsoSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="9032a660-a99b-75c9-11e7-5f6712569e66.htm">Field Class</a></div><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="3f0ae465-4213-fbde-4e6e-927f3de1100f.htm">Field Members</a></div><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="d56a689b-3bc4-d312-4d0f-659113931837.htm">Lucene.Net.Documents Namespace</a></div></div></div><div id="footer"><div class="footerLine"><img width="100%" height="3px" src="../icons/footer.gif" alt="Footer image" title="Footer image" /></div><A NAME="feedback"></A><span id="fb" class="feedbackcss"></span></div></div></body></html>