Try using the newest release and read the Queryparser syntax.
http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene/docs/queryparsersyntax.html
Escape characters were just added.
--Peter
On 5/29/02 10:53 PM, "Harpreet S Walia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
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