> Isn't that what the escape character is for?
> \ character for escaping other special characters.
> > to strip the " before parsing?
> > If so, what is the point of parsing?
> > "Lucene User" query is not equal to Lucene User.
> > encountered without any closing "
> > > line 1, column 11.  Encountered: <EOF> after : "\" Speaker"
> > > analyzer.tokenStream directly (which correctly strips the " out ?