Solr Query not parsing forward slash

Question

Is the forward slash \"/\" a reserved character in solr field names?

I\'m having trouble writing a solr sort query which will parse for fields containing a forward s

Answer 1

From the solr wiki at https://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax :

Solr 4.0 added regular expression support, which means that '/' is now a special character and must be escaped if searching for literal forward slash.