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font-size: 8.5pt; font-weight: bold;">[Missing &lt;summary&gt; documentation for "M:Lucene.Net.Index.Term.Equals(System.Object)"]</p></div><p /><b>Namespace:</b> <a href="4d52bcdb-050f-b66e-6d74-d7169ebc88b0.htm">Lucene.Net.Index</a><br /><b>Assembly:</b> <span sdata="assembly">Lucene.Net</span> (in Lucene.Net.dll) Version: 2.9.4.1<h1 class="heading"><span onclick="ExpandCollapse(syntaxToggle)" style="cursor:default;" onkeypress="ExpandCollapse_CheckKey(syntaxToggle, event)" tabindex="0"><img id="syntaxToggle" class="toggle" name="toggleSwitch" src="../icons/collapse_all.gif" />Syntax</span></h1><div id="syntaxSection" class="section" name="collapseableSection" style=""><div id="syntaxCodeBlocks" class="code"><span codeLanguage="CSharp"><table><tr><th>C#</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">public</span> <span class="keyword">override</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a28wyd50" target="_blank">bool</a> <span class="identifier">Equals</span>(
	<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e5kfa45b" target="_blank">Object</a> <span class="parameter">obj</span>
)</pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="VisualBasicDeclaration"><table><tr><th>Visual Basic</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">Public</span> <span class="keyword">Overrides</span> <span class="keyword">Function</span> <span class="identifier">Equals</span> ( _
	<span class="parameter">obj</span> <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e5kfa45b" target="_blank">Object</a> _
) <span class="keyword">As</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a28wyd50" target="_blank">Boolean</a></pre></td></tr></table></span><span codeLanguage="ManagedCPlusPlus"><table><tr><th>Visual C++</th></tr><tr><td><pre xml:space="preserve"><span class="keyword">public</span>:
<span class="keyword">virtual</span> <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a28wyd50" target="_blank">bool</a> <span class="identifier">Equals</span>(
	<a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e5kfa45b" target="_blank">Object</a>^ <span class="parameter">obj</span>
) <span class="keyword">override</span></pre></td></tr></table></span></div><div id="parameters"><h4 class="subHeading">Parameters</h4><dl paramName="obj"><dt><span class="parameter">obj</span></dt><dd>Type: <a href="http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/e5kfa45b" target="_blank">System<span class="languageSpecificText"><span class="cs">.</span><span class="vb">.</span><span class="cpp">::</span><span class="nu">.</span><span class="fs">.</span></span>Object</a><br /><p style="color: #dc143c; font-size: 8.5pt; font-weight: bold;">[Missing &lt;param name="obj"/&gt; documentation for "M:Lucene.Net.Index.Term.Equals(System.Object)"]</p></dd></dl></div><h4 class="subHeading">Return Value</h4><p style="color: #dc143c; font-size: 8.5pt; font-weight: bold;">[Missing &lt;returns&gt; documentation for "M:Lucene.Net.Index.Term.Equals(System.Object)"]</p></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="70737a65-3b8c-bbee-c614-ed89be02b1a4.htm">Term Class</a></div><div class="seeAlsoStyle"><a href="4d52bcdb-050f-b66e-6d74-d7169ebc88b0.htm">Lucene.Net.Index 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>