It might be helpful if you would explain, at a higher level, what you
are trying to accomplish. Where do these things come from? What
higher-level problem are you trying to solve?
On Sun, Oct 20, 2013 at 7:12 PM, saisantoshi <saisantosh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> So, if I understand correctly, StandardAnalyzer wont work for the following
> below as it strips out the special characters and does search only on
> searchText ( in this case).
>
> queryText = *&&searchText*
>
> If we want to do a search like "*&&**" then we need to use
> WhiteSpaceAnalyzer. Please let me know if my understanding is correct.
>
> Also, I am not sure as the following is mentioned in the lucene docs? Is the
> below not for StandardAnalyzer then? It is not mentioned that it wont work
> for StandardAnalyzer.
>
> /*
> Escaping Special Characters
>
> Lucene supports escaping special characters that are part of the query
> syntax. The current list special characters are
>
> + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ /
>
> To escape these character use the \ before the character. For example to
> search for (1+1):2 use the query:
>
> \(1\+1\)\:2
>
> */
>
> Thanks,
> Sai.
>
>
>
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