Error when searching with special characters

[Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo]

Hi,

I encountered this error when I tried to search with special characters,
like "&" and "#".

{
  "responseHeader":{
    "status":400,
    "QTime":0},
  "error":{
    "msg":"org.apache.solr.search.SyntaxError: Cannot parse
'\"Research ': Lexical error at line 1, column 11.  Encountered: <EOF>
after : \"\\\"Research \"",
    "code":400}}


I have done the search by putting inverted commands, like: q="Research &
Development"

What could be the issue here?

I'm facing this problem in both Solr 5.4.0 and Solr 6.0.1.


Regards,
Edwin