On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Stephen Powis <stephen.po...@pardot.com> wrote: > I want to return any first name with a Question Mark in it > Query: first_name: *\?* >
There is no way to escape the metacharacters * or ? for a wildcard query (regardless of queryparser, even if you write your own). See https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LUCENE-588 Its something we could fix, but in all honesty it seems one reason it isn't fixed is because the bug is so old, yet there hasn't really been any indication of demand for such a thing...
