Hi Iain, There was a discussion about Dash Confusion in QueryParser (search for "t-shirt" - with quota symbols! - or Dash Confusion). They suggested to escape such words by putting quota symbols around them. For instance, ask your application "DISP-NAME" instead of DISP-NAME.
Dmitri ----- Original Message ----- From: "Iain Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lucene mailing list (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 12:01 PM Subject: Searching for - > Hi folks, another newbie question for you. > > I'm using Lucene to index huges chunks of source code, (cobol, jcl, c, java, > text documents etc). In some of these languages (such as cobol) it is valid > to have a variable name of DISP-NAME for example. The problem I have is that > when you enter this search string into the lucene query engine, it reads the > - character as a "NOT" modifier rather than as part of the word, and so I'm > getting incorrect results, (it basically does a search for DISP NOT NAME). > > Anyone any ideas as to how to get around this (can you 'escape' the modifier > characters so that Lucene doesn't interpret them as such for example)? > > Thanks, > Iain Young > http://www.microfocus.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]