Search for Special Character in Oracle Text CONTAINS Query

Hi,
We have to write few query which will search for email id in the Oracle Text.
The Search text will be like <[email protected]> .
So email id should be searched correctly with the @ symbol.
Similarly we want the following special character to be searched in the Text like ",',*

You will need to escape the special characters by either using \ in front of each special character or putting {} around the whole phrase that contains the special characters, as per the online documentation:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/text.111/b28304/cqspcl.htm#CCREF2091

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