It really depends on what syntax you want to support ... if you just want basic term matching and do't want to let hte user specify field names, or boosts or phrases, or ranges, or wildcards -- then just escape the entirestring, that should make it impossible to get a parse exception.
I took an approach similar to that, by escaping all of the "special' characters except '+', '-', and '"', and then stripping out all quotes if there was a non even amount ... this gave me a simplified version of the Lucene syntax that was fairly safe. -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
