Deletes all documents that have a given

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term

indexed. This is useful if one uses a document field to hold a unique ID string for the document. Then to delete such a document, one merely constructs a term with the appropriate field and the unique ID string as its text and passes it to this method. See {@link #DeleteDocument(int)} for information about when this deletion will become effective.

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public virtual int DeleteDocuments(
	Term term
)

Public Overridable Function DeleteDocuments ( _
	term As Term _
) As Integer

public:
virtual int DeleteDocuments(
	Term^ term
)