Hi, May be URL encoding issue? By the way, I would use back slash to escape special characters.
Ahmet On Friday, June 17, 2016 10:08 AM, Zheng Lin Edwin Yeo <edwinye...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi, I encountered this error when I tried to search with special characters, like "&" and "#". { "responseHeader":{ "status":400, "QTime":0}, "error":{ "msg":"org.apache.solr.search.SyntaxError: Cannot parse '\"Research ': Lexical error at line 1, column 11. Encountered: <EOF> after : \"\\\"Research \"", "code":400}} I have done the search by putting inverted commands, like: q="Research & Development" What could be the issue here? I'm facing this problem in both Solr 5.4.0 and Solr 6.0.1. Regards, Edwin