Hi Ken, >>> But in general escaping characters in a query gets tricky - if you >>> can >>> directly build queries versus pre-processing text sent to the query >>> parser, you'll save yourself some pain and suffering. >> >> What do you mean by these two alternatives? That is, what exactly >> could >> I do better? > > By "can build...", I meant if you can come up with a GUI whereby the > user doesn't have to use special characters (other than say quoting) > then you can take a collection of clauses and programmatically build > your query, without using the query parser.
I think I have that (escaping of characters that have a special meaning in Solr). I just didn't know that the semicolon is one of them. So it would be nice if the docs could be updated to account for this. Thanks again -Michael
