There isn't a feature to do this for every single search, but there is  
the helper method to escape all special characters:
  Person.search Riddle.escape(params[:search])

-- 
Pat

On 26/07/2009, at 1:41 PM, anatoly wrote:

>
> You are right, that does work.  Thanks.  I was also wondering if there
> is a way to tell sphinx to do this automatically, so that I don't need
> to remember to do this on the params[:search] every time.
>
> On Jul 25, 11:58 pm, James Healy <[email protected]> wrote:
>> anatoly wrote:
>>> It seems that when searching in extended mode, sphinx uses @ in a  
>>> way
>>> that creates a problem... so for example..
>>
>>> Person.search "[email protected]", :match_mode    => :extended
>>> ... does not wok
>>
>>> However, the following does work:
>>> Person.search "[email protected]"
>>
>>> Somehow I need to tell sphinx how to interpret the @ in this case...
>>> anyone know how to do that?
>>
>> I *think* you need to escape the @ with a \.
>>
>>    Person.search "[email protected]", :match_mode => :extended
>>
>> -- James Healy <jimmy-at-deefa-dot-com>  Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:57:12  
>> +1000
> >


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