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

In my case I needed to search for forward slash / with wild card *, e.g.:

+(*/*)
+(*2016/17*)

I Tried to escape it like so:

+(*2016\/*)
+(*2016\/17*)

but that didn't work also.

the solution was to wrap the text with double quote " like do:

+("*\/*")
+("*/*")

+("*2016\/17*")
+("*2016/17*")

both returned the same result with and without escaping the forward slash