: So it seems like it just broke the text up at spaces, and does text analysis : within getFieldQuery(), but how can it make the assumption that text should : only be broken at whitespace ?
whitespace is a significant metacharacter to the Queryparser - it is used to distinguish multiple clauses of a BooleanQuery. if you want whitepace to be treated as a literal part of the query, you need to either escape it, or quote it... dug\ up "dug up" : This seemed to be confirmed that when i pass it query 'dug/up' it just passes : it as one string, but then its seems to get converted to 'dug up' within the : getFieldQuery() getFieldQuery is responsible for calling the analyzer - so in your 'dug/up' example the analyzer you are using in your QueryParser instance is evidently tokenizing on "/" -Hoss --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-user-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-user-h...@lucene.apache.org
