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I am using opengrok at work, trying to match certain anchors in the codebase using regular expressions

From opengrok documentation:

Escaping special characters: Opengrok supports escaping special characters that are part of the query syntax. Current special characters are: + - && || ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ /

Since anchors are not special characters my query is as follow:

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lucene fails to parse my query for some reason:

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Now when I escape both anchors /\<property\>*/, it does not fail but I get 0 results. There are thousands of * text in our codebase. What am I doing wrong?

Oussama Ben Ghorbel
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The "<" and ">" characters are not indexed by Lucene (they're not in the index), so they're not searchable.

See more related info here.

Marcelo Ávila de Oliveira
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