> Also could you please tell me the difference between searching a text in > the > following ways > > q=Exact_Word:"samplestring" > > q=samplestring&qf=Exact_Word > > I am trying to understand how enclosing the full term in "" is resolving > this problem ? What does it tell to solr ?
The quotes tell Solr to do a phrase query. A phrase query must have the same relative position increments in the index as are found in the query, or the entire string must be an exact match for a single token in the index. Basically, the index must have the same words as the query, next to each other, and in the same order. > Other than the exclamation mark are there any other characters which tells > specific things to solr There are a number of special characters to Solr' standard query parser. The bottom of this page shows them all: http://lucene.apache.org/core/4_2_1/queryparser/org/apache/lucene/queryparser/classic/package-summary.html?is-external=true It lists && as a special character. It's not the combination of two & characters that is special, it is each & character. Thanks, Shawn
