I think I have a workaround, but I'm not sure why it works (since it doesn't mesh with the docs about escaping special chars).
In the examples below, I was using StandardAnalyzer. If I switch to using WhitespaceAnalyzer, then one of the examples that fails (in the note below) becomes: search string I construct: (host:"ny-dns-2") query as reported by toString(): +host:ny-dns-2 returns the results I expect. I just don't understand why. I didn't have to escape the hyphen. In fact, if I do escape them, I'm back to no results. I did have to quote the string I wanted to find. Does anyone have an explanation they would care to share? Thanks. --- Matt "Matthew B. Merrill" wrote: > > Hello all. I'm having a problem with escaping Lucene characters, and I > was wondering if anyone here could help. > > I've set up a Keyword field for my documents named "host". "host" can > contain names like "ocrlprod" or "ny-dns-2". I'm pretty sure that I > want it to be a Keyword (rather than Text), so that it isn't tokenized. > > The problem is when I need to search against that field. For example: > > search string I construct: (host:orclprod) > query as reported by toString(): +host:orclprod > > returns the results I expect. Great so far. > > search string I construct: (host:ny-dns-2) > query as reported by toString(): +(host:ny -dns -2) > > does not return any results. After reading about needing to escape > special characters, I'm not surprised, and move on to... > > search string I construct: (host:ny\-dns\-2) > query as reported by toString(): +host:"ny dns 2" > > does not return any results. What happened to my hyphens?!?! Is there > any way to get them to show up, as I expect I need them to? > > Thanks for any help. > > --- Matt > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
