Re: escaping special characters while doing search doesn't seem to work

[Steven Rowe <sa...@syr.edu>]

Hi Polina,

Try this (jGuru Lucene FAQ item):
<URL:http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=538308>

Or, better yet, this (the Lucene Wiki "AnalysisParalysis" page):
<URL:http://wiki.apache.org/jakarta-lucene/AnalysisParalysis>

Steve

Polina Litvak wrote:
> I was trying to search my index for a term of the form a*-b* (e.g.
> ABC-DEFG). While tracing the code I noticed that Lucene breaks this term
> into two terms, "ABC" and "DEFG". To prevent this, I tried escaping the
> special character "-" with "\" to form the term "ABC\-DEFG" and now
> Lucene search can't find this term in the index.
>  
> Does anyone know of this already ? Is this a bug, or I am doing
> something wrong ?
>  
> Thanks, 
> Polina
> 


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