You may also use Unicode escapes: \u5555 for example. -----Original Message----- From: Reece [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 10:04 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: escaping special chars in query
The bottom of the Lucene query syntax page: http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html >From the page: Escaping Special Characters Lucene supports escaping special characters that are part of the query syntax. The current list special characters are + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ To escape these character use the \ before the character. For example to search for (1+1):2 use the query: \(1\+1\)\:2 -Reece On Feb 19, 2008 12:07 PM, zqzuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, solr have reserved some special chars in building its queries, > such as + > * : and so on, thus any queries must escape these chars otherwise > exceptions will occur. I wonder where can I find a complete list of > chars I need escape in the query, and what is the encoding/decoding > method (URL?) > > In my test I have found these chars have caused problems: ! ^ " * ( ) > + { } [ ] \ possibly more to add? > > Thanks in advance! > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/escaping-special-chars-in-query-tp15562322p15562 > 322.html Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
