Hi, I am using Lucene version 3.1 Previously I had trouble regarding special characters as when I entered "---" as my input, it gave the following error
*Caused by: org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Encountered " "-" "- "" at line 1, column 1. Was expecting one of: "(" ... "*" ... <QUOTED> ... <TERM> ... <PREFIXTERM> ... <WILDTERM> ... "[" ... "{" ... <NUMBER> ... <TERM> ... "*" ... *To overcome this, I used escape() method of the QueryParser and worked fine. But now, unlike previously, the search for "item*" yielded no results because I guess it escaped the asterisk character too. How should I go about preventing this from happening ? I am using MultiFieldQueryParser. Govind * *-- No trees were harmed in the creation of this message, but several thousand electrons were mildly inconvenienced.