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Parser bug when dealing with new lines.

           Summary: Parser bug when dealing with new lines.
           Product: Lucene
           Version: CVS Nightly - Specify date in submission
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: Other
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: QueryParser
        AssignedTo: lucene-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: konrad@xtramind.com


Hi,

there seems to be a bug in the Lucene parser in the
treatment of spaces and newlines.

When we search for:

weltbank && identifier: weltbank

over a certain collection of texts, we get 82 hits.
If we write this as:

weltbank &&
identifier: weltbank

with no space after the &&, there still are 82 results. But
the same query with a space or tab after the && and before the newline 
gives back 0 results!

Even worse, the same query with a space before the "identifier:", but 
not after the &&:

weltbank &&
 identifier: weltbank

gives 106 hits, i.e., the same as 

weltbank || identifier: weltbank

Arrrgh!

There is a simple workaround - flattening the query string -
but this is probably only a problem of newlines not being treated
similar to whitespace in the parser code.

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