If you escape the character + or #, the sentence:
"I know java + c++" would not skip +, furthermore, it breaks query parsing,
where + is reserved.

-John

On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:04 AM, John Wang <john.w...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This runs into problems when you have such following sentence:
> "I dislike c++."
>
> If you use WSA, then last token is "c++.", not "c++", the query would not
> find this document.
>
> -John
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Chris Salem <ch...@mainsequence.net>wrote:
>
>> That seems to be working.  you don't have to escape the pluses though.
>>  Also, it appears that the WhitespaceAnalyzer is case sensitive, but I guess
>> I could lowercase everything that gets indexed.
>> thanks alot for your help.
>> Sincerely,
>> Chris Salem
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> To: java-user@lucene.apache.org, Chris Salem <ch...@mainsequence.net>
>> From: Danil TORIN <torin...@gmail.com>
>> Sent: 7/16/2009 10:28:37 AM
>> Subject: Re: searching for c++, c#, etc...
>>
>>
>> Try WhitespaceAnalyzer for both indexing and searching.
>> On search-time you may also need to escape "+", "(", ")" with "\".
>> "#" shouldn't need escaping.
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 17:23, Chris Salem<ch...@mainsequence.net> wrote:
>> > I'm using the StandardAnalyzer for both searching and indexing.
>> > Here's the code to parse the query:
>> > Searcher searcher = new IndexSearcher(reader);
>> > Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(stopwords);
>> > System.out.println(queryString);
>> > QueryParser qp = new QueryParser(searchField,analyzer);
>> > Query query = qp.parse(queryString);
>> > queryString = query.toString();
>> > System.out.println(queryString);
>> > And here's the output from the println's:
>> > r2_resume_text:c\+\+ AND r2_resume_text: c\#
>> > +r2_resume_text:c +r2_resume_text:c
>> > Also the documentation doesn't say anything about # having to be
>> escaped.
>> > Do I have to escape during indexing too?
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Chris Salem
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > ----- Original Message -----
>> > To: java-user@lucene.apache.org, Chris Salem <ch...@mainsequence.net>
>> > From: Ian Lea <ian....@gmail.com>
>> > Sent: 7/16/2009 5:12:53 AM
>> > Subject: Re: searching for c++, c#, etc...
>> >
>> >
>> > Hi
>> >
>> >
>> > Escaping should work. See
>> > http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_1/queryparsersyntax.html and
>> > QueryParser.escape(). And you need to be sure that your analyzer
>> > isn't removing the plus signs and that you use the same analyzer for
>> > indexing and searching.
>> >
>> > Googling for something like "lucene escape" will find you more info.
>> >
>> > Luke will tell you what is actually in your index.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Ian.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Salem<ch...@mainsequence.net>
>> wrote:
>> >> Hello,
>> >> I'm trying to search for the terms like c++ but the parser is stripping
>> off the ++.  I tried escaping the ++ with slashes but it's still stripping
>> it off.  I could replace + with "plus", is that the best way to do it?  How
>> come escaping isn't working?
>> >> thanks
>> >> Sincerely,
>> >> Chris Salem
>> >>
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