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<div class="block">Convert an external value (from XML update command or from query string)
 into the internal format for both storing and indexing (which can be modified by any analyzers).</div>
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<dt><strong>Overrides:</strong></dt>
<dd><code><a href="../../../../org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.html#toInternal(java.lang.String)">toInternal</a></code>&nbsp;in class&nbsp;<code><a href="../../../../org/apache/solr/schema/FieldType.html" title="class in org.apache.solr.schema">FieldType</a><