About all you can do is roll your own. I suspect a decent regular
expression would work, or you could let Lucene escape the
query and then re-replace all \: with :
Erick
On 4/4/07, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm looking for some advice on dealing with malformed queries.
If a user searches for "yow!" then I get an exception from the query
parser. I can get round this by using QueryParser.escape(query) first
but then that prevents them from searching using other bits of the the
query syntax such as "author:alice".
Is there an easy way to get a query such as
"yow! author:alice"
and get back
"yow\! author:alice"
i.e only escape the special characters when they don't make sense?
Simon
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