searching for c++, c#, etc...

[Chris Salem]

Hello,
I'm trying to search for the terms like c++ but the parser is stripping off the 
++.  I tried escaping the ++ with slashes but it's still stripping it off.  I 
could replace + with "plus", is that the best way to do it?  How come escaping 
isn't working?
thanks
Sincerely,
Chris Salem