# Array of strings

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/array-of-strings/207075>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 8, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/array-of-strings/207075 "2019-11-08T09:06:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![irfanh94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8dc957/32.png) [@irfanh94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/irfanh94)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/array-of-strings/207075/1 "2019-11-08T09:06:17Z")

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Hey folks,

I have this mapping for vehicles:

```
"vehicles" : {
      "type": "text"
}

```

And documents inside, are like:

```
"vehicles" : [
       "triumph daytona 750 749 1992",
       "triumph trident 750 2018"
]

```

My question is, how I can make search query to search for document that contains exactly vehicle: triumph daytona 750 1992 ?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 9:47am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/array-of-strings/207075/2 "2019-11-08T09:47:08Z")

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You can run a `match` query and define the operator to be `AND` instead of `OR` (default). See [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html)

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**Author:** ![irfanh94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8dc957/32.png) [@irfanh94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/irfanh94)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 10:06am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/array-of-strings/207075/3 "2019-11-08T10:06:53Z")

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Hey David,

I am running query:

```
'match' => [
                'vehicles' => [
                    'query' => "triumph daytona 750 1992",
                    'boost' => 3,
                    'operator' => 'and',
                    'minimum_should_match' => '100%'
                ]
  ]

```

But I still get, documents without exact this vehicle but similar, like: triumph daytona 650 2001

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**Author:** ![irfanh94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8dc957/32.png) [@irfanh94](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/irfanh94)\
**Post date:** [November 8, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/array-of-strings/207075/4 "2019-11-08T10:30:09Z")

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Actually, this query works perfect, I had a bug in other OR statement which is not in this match.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 6, 2019, 10:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/array-of-strings/207075/5 "2019-12-06T10:30:12Z")

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Closed on December 6, 2019, 10:30am UTC

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