The "@" sign is a reserved word.  Where I can do an advanced search for a
title and an author like this:

@title "gone with the wind" & @author margaret

I'm not sure how to escape it.

On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 1:18 AM, Matt Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Just a note to Pat and others:
>
> I was able to stop the exception from being raised by explicitly
> passing match_mode of :boolean or :extended.
>
> I'd be curious if anyone has any guesses as to why the exception was
> occurring (and still does with the other match modes).
>
>
>
> On Jan 13, 3:24 pm, Matt Murphy <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I should also add that I tried adding the @ character to the charset
> > table in the sphinx.yml settings as well as escaping the search string
> > first using Riddle.escape
> >
> > On Jan 13, 12:30 pm, "Matt Murphy" <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > In the master branch with the stable version of sphinx I'm able to
> > > search for an email address... but it seems that in the 0.9.9 branch
> > > there is an error when I do this:
> >
> > > Model.search("someone@")
> >
> > > results in:
> >
> > > ArgumentError: comparison of Fixnum with nil failed
> > >         from
> /projects/foo/vendor/rails/activesupport/lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:55:in
> > > `<'
> > >         from
> /projects/foo/vendor/plugins/thinking_sphinx/lib/../vendor/riddle/lib/riddle/client.rb:501
> >
> > > Does anyone know if there is a workaround for this?
> >
> > > Escaping it with \ does not seem to make any difference...
> >
>

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