If I understand your problem right what you probably need is to escape those characters: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_9_1/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping Special Characters
On 14 October 2010 14:36, Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Let's say that I submit a query for a MoreLikeThis search. The query > contains special characters, that Solr/Lucene interprets specially, > such as colon ":". > > Example textual query is "Solve a proportion X:2 = 4/5 and find X". > (the context is website algebra.com). > > My queries never intend those characters to be interpreted for > anything other than literal value. > > As a first shot, I simply replace them with a space, but I wonder if I > would be better off, matching wise, with quoting those characters > instead of removing them? > > If so how do I quote such characters? > > Thanks1 > > i >
