Escape your special characters. q=field:\? and q=field:\- should work fine.
Cheers
Avlesh
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 4:10 AM, Mohamed Parvez <par...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Say i have 3 fields, named field1,field2 and field3
>
> I want to query all records that have "xxx" in field1 and filed3 should not
> be null
>
> I tried
> 1] q=field1:xxx&fq=?
> Got an error saying => org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot
> parse 'title:?': '*' or '?' not allowed as first character in WildcardQuery
>
> 2] q=filed1:xxx&fq=-x
> Got an error saying => org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot
> parse 'title:-smb': Encountered " "-" "- "" at line 1, column 6. Was
> expecting one of: "(" ... "*" ... ... ... ... ... "[" ... "{" ... ...
>
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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> Thanks/Regards,
> Parvez
>
