Do you actually want to escape them with \ ?
Look at this: http://search-lucene.com/?q=escape+query+characters&fc_project=Solr Otis---- Sematext :: http://sematext.com/ :: Solr - Lucene - Nutch Lucene ecosystem search :: http://search-lucene.com/ ----- Original Message ---- > From: Igor Chudov <ichu...@gmail.com> > To: solr-user <solr-user@lucene.apache.org> > Sent: Thu, October 14, 2010 9:36:31 AM > Subject: Quoting special characters? > > 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 >
