try manually escaping the search string, adding "\" in front of the special characters. (you can do this easily by using string replace) This will make sure that your query contains the special characters
Prabin toostep.com On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Ravichandra < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I am having problems with searching for special charecters like %,*,+,- > etc. > I am using standard analyzer. I create queries using the query constructor. > > I read in the forums and tried with QueryParser.escpae and parse methods, > but the problem is if I have two fields as "ABC+S" and "ABC-S" and when i > search for "ABC+S", the order of fields is "ABC+S","ABC-S", and when we > search for "ABC-S", then also the order is "ABC+S","ABC-S". > > What I have seen is when we escape the search string and then parse it > using > query parser, the generated query doesn't contain the special charecter > '+', > or '-'. > > Please suggest me how to deal with special charecters. > > Lucene : 2.4 > > Thanks > Ravichandra > > ----- > Thanks > Ravichandra > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Problem-with-special-charecters-tp20807546p20807546.html > Sent from the Lucene - Java Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
