On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Nicholas Fellows <n...@djdownload.com> wrote: > I have some data in solr > > where the text string could potentially be > > "Vic & Bobs greatest hits" > > how can i ensure that when a user query is made > for "Vic and Bobs greatest hits" , a match is made? > > this also needs to work the other way round. > > i've not found any useful information about this scenario
Haven't tried this particular case, and it is possible that there might be a need to escape & as & but in general, Solr synonyms should address this kind of a need. Please see: http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.SynonymFilterFactory and the setup in the default schema.xml. Regards, Gora
