Hi, It does not work with the back slash too.
But I found that it does not work for defType=lucene. It will work if the defType=dismax or edismax. What could be the reason that it did not work with the default defType=lucene? Regards, Edwin On 18 June 2016 at 01:04, Ahmet Arslan <iori...@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: > Hi, > > May be URL encoding issue? > By the way, I would use back slash to escape special characters. > > Ahmet > > On Friday, June 17, 2016 10:08 AM, Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo < > edwinye...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > 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 >