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Escaping a Lucene query in Ruby
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escape.rb
RE_ESCAPE_LUCENE = /
( [-+!\(\)\{\}\[\]^"~*?:\\\/] # A special character
| && # Boolean &&
| \|\| # Boolean ||
)
/x
"123-456-7890".gsub(RE_ESCAPE_LUCENE) { |m| "\\#{m}" }
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