[Xapian-discuss] Make Xapian accept all characters

[Lautaro M]

Ok, but suppose I have a complex query, something like "(a OR b) AND NOT c OR ##". Do I have to parse the query by myself?

> Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 03:03:24 +0100
> From: olly at survex.com
> To: lautaromedrano at hotmail.com
> CC: xapian-discuss at lists.xapian.org
> Subject: Re: [Xapian-discuss] Make Xapian accept all characters
> 
> On Sun, May 03, 2015 at 07:34:32PM +0000, Lautaro M wrote:
> > I'm using Xapian at work (PHP bindings) and I have to make it accept
> > '##' as a term to index. We have a layer on top of xapian, but as far
> > as I can tell, Xapian's QueryParser is removing them from the query.
> > So, if I search for just '##' I get an empty query, after Xapian
> > parsed it. I've seen the flags this class accepts, but I can't do what
> > I want with those (
> > http://xapian.org/docs/apidoc/html/classXapian_1_1QueryParser.html   ) 
> 
> QueryParser doesn't currently allow controlling the characters which
> make up a word, but you can just construct a Query object directly
> for any term you want:
> 
> $hashquery = new XapianQuery('##');
> 
> Cheers,
>     Olly