Does a special character lika a "-" prohibitor operator require no-space after
it in order to work as a prohibitor?
Typically on the web, e.g. Google and others, the "-" operator works as a
boolean prohibitor only when not followed by a space. Otherwise it is treated
as just a dash query term.
But in our Lucene implementation the the "-" seem to be acting as a
prohibitor even if there is space after it. For example. in a query: Sales +
service , the 'service' term is excluded by Lucene. (Same for the "+"
operator.)
Is this space-treatment a bug or a standard Lucene query parser behavior?
Thank you,
Felix
