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During our last week of Ferret / aaf usage (also our first week of Ferret / aaf usage), I have received 8 messages stating that our app encountered a Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException. For instance: A Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException occurred in foo#search: Error occurred in src/q_parser.y:279 - yyerror couldn''t parse query "com -- 404". Error message was syntax error /where/gems/are/stored/gems/ferret-0.10.11/lib/ferret/index.rb:709 in &...

Is there any somewhat standard way to remove or otherwise handle special or syntax characters from a user''s search, such as a colon? I was thinking maybe there was something akin to Ferret::Analysis::FULL_ENGLISH_STOP_WORDS, like Ferret::Analysis::FERRET_SYNTAX_CHARS, but no such luck. How are other folks dealing with filtering user input? John

...tart to occur when i search on big distances so for example 40 miles from "G1" VoObject.ferret_index.search(" x:[206826 335573] AND y:[590526 719273]").total_hits => 165 300 miles VoObject.ferret_index.search("y:[172098 1137702]").total_hits Ferret::QueryParser::QueryParseException: Error occured in q_range.c:121 - range_new Upper bound must be greater than lower bound. "1137702" < "172098" from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.10.1/lib/ferret/index.rb:572:in `parse'' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/ferret-0.10...