What characters are ignored in ElasticSearch

[AndyB]

It appears certain characters are ignored in ElasticSearch. For example I often will reference a particulars member by their first name and their handle like this:

Andy (AndyB)

So if I want to search for all occurrences of (AndyB) I thought I would be able to enter in quotes "(AndyB)". Unfortunately this does not work. Looks like ES ignores the parenthesis.

Is there a way to configure ES to not ignore parentheses?

Also what characters are ignored in ES or should not be used?

 

[Mike]

That's getting into tokenizers and analysis: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/

If you want to change those, you can, but it's beyond the scope of our implementation.

 

[AndyB]

Thank you, Mike.