Special characters (-&+, etc) not working in SOLR Query
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Solution
You need to escape your query since the dash is a special character in lucene queries. Have a look at the other characters that you should escape here, and here if you want to know more about the lucene query syntax.
Your query would then look like this: `solr?q=Healing \- Live`
I don't know which language you are writing code with but if you are using Java solrj provides the ClientUtils#escapeQueryChars method.
Problem
I'm using "text_general" fieldType for searching in SOLR. While searching with special characters I'm not getting proper results and getting errors. I would like to use special characters like these: - `-` - `&` - `+` Query `solr?q=Healing - Live` `solr?q=Healing & Live` Error message The request sent by the client was syntactically incorrect (org.apache.lucene.queryParser.ParseException: Cannot parse '("Healing \': Lexical error at line 1, column 8. Encountered: after : "\"Healing \"). schema.xml ``` <fieldType name="text_general" class="solr.TextField" positionIncrementGap="100"> <analyzer type="index"> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true" /> <filter class="solr.ASCIIFoldingFilterFactory" /> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> <analyzer type="query"> <tokenizer class="solr.StandardTokenizerFactory"/> <filter class="solr.StopFilterFactory" ignoreCase="true" words="stopwords.txt" enablePositionIncrements="true" /> <filter class="solr.SynonymFilterFactory" synonyms="synonyms.txt" ignoreCase="true" expand="true"/> <filter class="solr.ASCIIFoldingFilterFactory" /> <filter class="solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory"/> </analyzer> </fieldType> <field name="title" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="true" /> <field name="text" type="text_general" indexed="true" stored="false" multiValued="true"/> <defaultSearchField>text</defaultSearchField> <copyField source="title" dest="text"/> ```