List of Escape Characters in Search Synonym Map

Question

I understand that we can use \ to help escape special strings in synonym maps such as comma and \ itself
But what are the full list of characters to escape?

Thank you

Answer

Thanks for asking question! As its mentioned here: Synonyms in Azure Cognitive Search that-

Synonyms are analyzed during query processing. If you need to define synonyms that contain commas or other special characters, you can escape them with a backslash, like in this example:

{
"format": "solr",
"synonyms": "WA\, USA, WA, Washington "
}

Since the backslash is itself a special character in other languages like JSON and C#, you will probably need to double-escape it. For example, the JSON sent to the REST API for the above synonym map would look like this:

{
"format":"solr",
"synonyms": "WA\, USA, WA, Washington"
}

If you are looking more on this? Let us know if further query on this.

Answer

Thanks, special characters are + - & | ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ /

Hope this helps. Further I will reach out to content author for updating this document. Thanks again.

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