Thanks for the advice everyone. I am rebuilding the index with a lowercase field instead of string.
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Hostetter [mailto:hossman_luc...@fucit.org] Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2011 1:10 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: Searching For Term 'OR' : I am looking for some advice on how to index and search a field that : contains a two character state name without the query parser dying on : the OR and also not treating it as an 'OR' Boolean operator. fq={!term f=state}OR ...this kind of filter you don't want a query parser that has any metacharacters. -Hoss
