RE: Brackets in query syntax?

[Scott Ganyo <sc...@eTapestry.com>]

[ and ] are used for RangeQuery.  They indicate an inclusive range.  For
example: "name:[adam-scott]"

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Friedman [mailto:pfriedman@macromedia.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 2:03 PM
> To: 'lucene-user@jakarta.apache.org'
> Subject: Brackets in query syntax?
> 
> 
> Are brackets, [ and ], legal in a query?  
> If so, do they have some special meaning?
> If not, are there other "illegal" characters as well?
> 
> Parsing the query syntax, "[]", causes the following error:
> 
> Lexical error at line 1, column 3.  Encountered: <EOF> after : "[]"
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at 
> line 1, column
> 3.  Encountered: <EOF> after : "[]"
> 	at
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParserTokenManager.getNextT
> oken(Unknown
> Source)
> 	at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.jj_ntk(Unknown Source)
> 	at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Modifiers(Unknown
> Source)
> 	at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Query(Unknown Source)
> 	at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(Unknown Source)
> 	at 
> org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(Unknown Source)
> 
> I am using QueryParser and the StandardAnalyzer to parse the 
> query string.
> 
> Any help would be appreciate.
> Paul
> 
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