Will Special Characters come up in SearchBlox search?

SearchBlox uses the sb_analyzer by default. sb_analyzer usually ignores the special characters; however, the special characters would appear in context. However, kindly note that we strip off the special characters while indexing.

The following characters can be searched directly without escape character:

@#$^&-+=|",.?,(),* 

eg: test@

The following characters require escape character preceding it:

{ },!,:, < >,_,[] ,/ \ ,%

eg: test\%

Fuzzy search operator i.e., tilde ~ operator cannot be searched directly or using escape character. However the search term with characte~r can be enclosed in double quotes to make it work

eg: "test~nest"

To learn about analyzers in SearchBlox and support to special characters read: Analyzers in SearchBlox