Hello,
I am going to answer my own questions...
You can do something like:
def escape_string(str)
str = Regexp.escape(item[:word]).gsub(/([:~!<>="])/,'\\\\\1')
end
At one time there was a function called clean_string in QueryParser
but it appears to be gone.
Benjamin
On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:03 PM, Benjamin Arai wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to escape words for searching i.e., "hello". The key here
> is that the two L's on "hello" are actually vertical bars. Is there
> a special function in Ferret or anywhere for that matter that will do
> the escaping of the Ferret special characters?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Benjamin
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