Beside choosing the right analyzer you could run into problems if you use a query parser as it will interpret you parentesis.
simon On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Erick Erickson<erickerick...@gmail.com> wrote: > First, I highly, highly recommend you get a copy of Luke to examineyour > index. It'll also help you understand the role of Analyzers. > > Your first problem is that StandardAnalyzer probably removes > the open and close parens. See: > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_1/api/index.html > so you can't search on them *even if* you escape the > terms in your query parsing correctly, see: > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_3_2/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping Special > Characters > > You want to understand the implications of whatever > analyzer you choose, or progress will be...er...difficult <G>. > > Luke will allow you to try different Analyzers and see the results of > parsing > queries, which will be a fine place to start... > > Best > Erick > > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Radha Sreedharan <radh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I am using a Standard analyzer on both my search field and my query. >> I use a SpanNearQuery to search on the search field. >> One of the query terms has special characters like ( - round open bracket >> and ) - round close bracket : How does Lucene handle this? >> Also, the search field has ( and ) : How does Lucene handle this? Is it >> treated as white space and ignored? >> >> Is it possible to search for special characters ? ie if my query has ) then >> it should search for it and only if my search field has ) , it should give >> me a hit. >> >> Regards, >> Radha >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
