# Can't escape + sign in elastic search query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-sign-in-elastic-search-query/158584>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 28, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-sign-in-elastic-search-query/158584 "2018-11-28T14:22:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![sumit1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@sumit1](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sumit1)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-sign-in-elastic-search-query/158584/1 "2018-11-28T14:22:34Z")

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I am unable to escape + symbol from my query string, I tried both ways 1) using \ and 2) by quoting the string. Also while tokenizing any string with + symbol generates tokens which don't have + sign. I am using token characters as  
// "token\_chars":["letter", "digit", "punctuation", "symbol"].  
Surprisingly - symbol is working perfectly fine and is getting escaped. Can someone help me on this.

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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 26, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-sign-in-elastic-search-query/158584/2 "2018-12-26T14:22:37Z")

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