Query parser error

[Harpreet S Walia]

Hi

I am trying to search words which have characters { , [ etc in them . I am using the 
standard lucene jar (V 1.2-rc4 ).
 when i search for the words having these charcters i get a exception saying 

org.apache.lucene.queryParser.TokenMgrError: Lexical error at line 1, column 8.  
Encountered:  after : "{are"
        at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParserTokenManager.getNextToken(Unknown 
Source)
        at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.jj_scan_token(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.jj_3_1(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.jj_2_1(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Clause(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.Query(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at com.sansui.lucene.Searcher.searchDocuments(Searcher.java:79)


I presume that lucene is treating these words as special characters . Is there a way 
to avoid this error and search for these kind of words . what kind of changes are 
required to be done for this .

Can someone shed some light on how queryparser treats the contents .

Thanks and regards,
Harpreet