Searching for special characters can be a pain. There is a message thread from this list called "Lucene Analyzer that can handle C++ vs C#" that might help.
-- Ian. On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Aradon Strider <ara...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > First off I am using the QueryParser with the standardanalyzer. It > seems that whenever I search for the # symbol, nothing is found. This > wouldn't be a problem but the documents I am searching have C# used > and needing to be searched for. > > I have tried escaping the # symbol but when I do escape it I just > get the following after calling parse from queryparser using "C#": > Text:c > > This is the same as searching just C. Now I know that the toString > can't be relied upon for special characters (C++ escaped correctly is > shown as Text:c), but I know c++ works since it only returns those > hits involved with c++ and not just the letter c (like c# is) > > Any help would be appreciated! > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
