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Reserved characters

Describes how reserved characters work, for queries in Optimizely Search & Navigation.

For any search string, the following characters are reserved:

+ - = && || > < ! ( ) { } [ ] ^ " ~ * ? : \ /

If any of those characters are in a query, it is escaped to prevent errors. For example, the string John+Doe is escaped to John\+Doe.

For any search string, the following character combinations is reserved and can not be searched for:

"AZXY", "DZZJ", "AXZY", "AXXZ", "AZZX"