Thanks for a quick response Jack. Trying to escape it with a backslash, we also need to escape the whitespace. Is that a default behavior while escaping special characters?
eg: Search query: pcta \- all No results returned <str name="parsedquery_toString">+(((name_starts_with:pcta^9.0 | name_parts_starts_with:pcta^6.0 | s_detail:pcta | name:pcta^12.0 | s_detail_starts_with:pcta^3.0 | s_detail_parts_starts_with:pcta^2.0) (name_starts_with:-^9.0 | s_detail_starts_with:-^3.0) (name_starts_with:all^9.0 | name_parts_starts_with:all^6.0 | s_detail:all | name:all^12.0 | s_detail_starts_with:all^3.0 | s_detail_parts_starts_with:all^2.0))~3)</str> Search query: pcta\ \- all Results returned <str name="parsedquery_toString">+(((((name_starts_with:pcta name_starts_with:-)~2^9.0) | name_parts_starts_with:pcta^6.0 | s_detail:pcta | name:pcta^12.0 | ((s_detail_starts_with:pcta s_detail_starts_with:-)~2^3.0) | s_detail_parts_starts_with:pcta^2.0) (name_starts_with:all^9.0 | name_parts_starts_with:all^6.0 | s_detail:all | name:all^12.0 | s_detail_starts_with:all^3.0 | s_detail_parts_starts_with:all^2.0))~2)</str> Search query: pcta \-\ all Results returned <str name="parsedquery_toString">+(((name_starts_with:pcta^9.0 | name_parts_starts_with:pcta^6.0 | s_detail:pcta | name:pcta^12.0 | s_detail_starts_with:pcta^3.0 | s_detail_parts_starts_with:pcta^2.0) (((name_starts_with:- name_starts_with:all)~2^9.0) | name_parts_starts_with:all^6.0 | s_detail:all | name:all^12.0 | ((s_detail_starts_with:- s_detail_starts_with:all)~2^3.0) | s_detail_parts_starts_with:all^2.0))~2)</str> On Oct 13, 2014, at 10:08 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com<mailto:j...@basetechnology.com>> wrote: Simply escape it with a backslash or enclose the term in quotes. Sure, it would be nice to be able to configure various operators to be disabled, but that's not fesible with query parser designed around static grammars and infleexible tools such as JFlex. -- Jack Krupansky -----Original Message----- From: Lanke,Aniruddha Sent: Monday, October 13, 2014 11:03 AM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org<mailto:solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Subject: Re: eDisMax parser and special characters Can the default behavior of "-" as a pre-fix operator be changed so it can be searched as a string? Thanks, On Oct 9, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Lanke,Aniruddha <aniruddha.la...@cerner.com<mailto:aniruddha.la...@cerner.com>> wrote: Is there a way to override this default behavior? — Lanke On Oct 8, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com<mailto:j...@basetechnology.com>> wrote: Hyphen is a "prefix operator" and is normally followed by a term to indicate that the term "must not" be present. So, your query has a syntax error. The two query parsers differ in how they handle various errors. In the case of edismax, it quotes operators and then tries again, so the hyphen gets quoted, and then analyzed to nothing for text fields but is still a string for string fields. -- Jack Krupansky -----Original Message----- From: Lanke,Aniruddha Sent: Wednesday, October 8, 2014 4:38 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org<mailto:solr-user@lucene.apache.org> Subject: Re: eDisMax parser and special characters Sorry for a delayed reply here is more information - Schema that we are using - http://pastebin.com/WQAJCCph Request Handler in config - http://pastebin.com/Y0kP40WF Some analysis - Search term: red - Parser eDismax No results show up <str name="parsedquery">(+((DisjunctionMaxQuery((name_starts_with:red^9.0 | name_parts_starts_with:red^6.0 | s_detail:red | name:red^12.0 | s_detail_starts_with:red^3.0 | s_detail_parts_starts_with:red^2.0)) DisjunctionMaxQuery((name_starts_with:-^9.0 | s_detail_starts_with:-^3.0)))~2))/no_coord</str> Search term: red - Parser dismax Results are returned <str name="parsedquery">(+DisjunctionMaxQuery((name_starts_with:red^9.0 | name_parts_starts_with:red^6.0 | s_detail:red | name:red^12.0 | s_detail_starts_with:red^3.0 | s_detail_parts_starts_with:red^2.0)) ())/no_coord</str> Why do we see the variation in the results between dismax and eDismax? On Oct 8, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Erick Erickson <erickerick...@gmail.com<mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com><mailto:erickerick...@gmail.com>> wrote: There's not much information here. What's the doc look like? What is the analyzer chain for it? What is the output when you add &debug=query? Details matter. A lot ;) Best, Erick On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Michael Joyner <mich...@newsrx.com<mailto:mich...@newsrx.com><mailto:mich...@newsrx.com>> wrote: Try escaping special chars with a "\" On 10/08/2014 01:39 AM, Lanke,Aniruddha wrote: We are using a eDisMax parser in our configuration. When we search using the query term that has a ‘-‘ we don’t get any results back. Search term: red - yellow This doesn’t return any data back but CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE This message and any included attachments are from Cerner Corporation and are intended only for the addressee. 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