HI I have a field to be searched which contains character ")" how can i escape it For eg : field :["testexample(1)"] If i give this i get the error "error": "Could not parse the filter query."

This has to do with how parentheses are handled in

filter_by

clauses. It expects a clause inside it and then cannot parse the result. Try to use braces for this use case e.g

testexample{1}

@Chandar Venkata Rama If your filter value has special characters, you should enclose your value inside backticks like ``testexample(1)``

If your filter value has special characters, you should enclose your value inside backticks like ``testexample(1)``

Would there be a way to escape special characters with the backslash character as well? e.g.

textexample\(1\)

No, only backticks are supported. From docs https://typesense.org/docs/27.0/api/search.html#filter-parameters

```Escaping Commas:

You can also filter using multiple values and use the backtick character to denote a string literal: category:= [

Running Shoes, Men

, Sneaker].```

Yeah, let's update the wording in the docs

Updated the docs on https://github.com/typesense/typesense-website/pull/256

Related to this i came across another issue , I have field values like chandar-v-r chandarvr So when i search field :["chandar-v-r"] it returns both the records, that means its ignoring the hyphen and considering both values matching But the concern i have is if i include hyohen in symbols_to_index , i need to drop the collection and recreate , Do we have any other alternative ?

You could create a new collection with the updated schema, and reindex your data in it. You can also set up an alias to do a zero downtime switch to the new collection.