Tried that, I'm afraid. No joy. I'm trying to step a search through with a
debugger attached to see if I can tell why it's not acting right…
On Aug 29, 2013, at 12:23 , Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote:
> You probably just need to escape the backslashes with a backslash - otherwise
> the query parser will treat your backslashes as escapes and remove them. This
> is not unlike placing a regex in a Java string literal.
>
> -- Jack Krupansky
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Hugh Cayless
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 12:08 PM
> To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org
> Subject: regex constructs allowed in queries
>
> Hi, I can't find anywhere good documentation of what syntax is allowed in
> Solr 4.4 regular expression searches. I can get regexes to work, but the same
> search with a predefined character class (like \s) or a word boundary matcher
> (\b) returns nothing. I am searching an untokenized field and using a plain
> space (' ') instead of '\s' works fine.
>
> Is there a different escape syntax for regex constructs using a backslash? Is
> the regex support just incomplete? Or am I hitting some sort of bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Hugh=
