Hi, You can escape all the characters by using \ . Ex : \& \-
But it will not work only for "&" special character if you directly try in browser. It will work when use solr apis in the code. Regards, Bala. On Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 6:52 AM Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote: > On 9/26/2018 10:39 PM, Rathor, Piyush (US - Philadelphia) wrote: > > We are facing some issues in search with special characters. Can you > please help in query if the search is done using following characters: > > > > • “&” > > • AND > > • ( > > • ) > > There are two ways. One is to escape them. The escaping character in > Solr is a backslash. > > \& > AN\D > \( > \) > > The other is to use a technique or a query parser that treats all > characters as literal. Putting information inside double quotes > sometimes works, but this also makes the query a phrase query, which > might produce incorrect results. One query parser that treats all > characters literally is the field parser: > > > https://lucene.apache.org/solr/guide/6_6/other-parsers.html#OtherParsers-FieldQueryParser > > If you use escaping, you don't have to change your query parser, which > can completely change how your query text is interpreted. Sometimes > changing the query parser is the best option, sometimes it isn't. > > URL encoding the characters as Atita suggests won't help. That's > something you have to do anyway just to get certain characters to be > successfully sent in a URL. Most Solr clients for programming languages > will do the URL encoding for you. > > Thanks, > Shawn > >
