Have you tried lower-casing them? To be treated as an operator, they must be upper cased.
But be careful that, when you lower-case them, your query analyzer doesn't treat them as stop words.... Best Erick On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 9:28 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > helo all, > > In my project, we are indexing the US states...when we try to search on > oregon ; state:OR, search on OR is throwing err...i know OR is a logical > op in lucene...is there a way to escape such keywords? > > tx! > > Regards, > Aravind R Yarram > Enabling Technologies > Equifax Information Services LLC > 1525 Windward Concourse, J42E > Alpharetta, GA 30005 > desk: 770 740 6951 > email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > This message contains information from Equifax Inc. which may be > confidential and privileged. If you are not an intended recipient, please > refrain from any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this > information and note that such actions are prohibited. If you have received > this transmission in error, please notify by e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > . >