# Can't escape single quote in json input in kibana visualization

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 1, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007 "2020-04-01T08:37:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![WAFA\_Mardiney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wafa_mardiney/32/65461_2.png) [@WAFA\_Mardiney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WAFA_Mardiney)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/1 "2020-04-01T08:37:56Z")

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I'm using kibana data table visualization and i need to make an aggregation that counts all fields that contains a specific message THAT contains single-quote, the problem is that i'm using painless lang in json input field and I can't escape this single quote, i've tried backslash and double single-quotes but nothing worked, here is an example of what i have:

```auto
{
"script": {
"inline": "doc['<field name>'].value == 'I can't escape single quote' ? 1 : 0", 
"lang": "painless"
}
}

```

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**Author:** ![tiagocosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagocosta/32/40045_2.png) [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 10:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/2 "2020-04-01T22:59:24Z")

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@WAFA_Mardiney have u tried to do something like ?

```auto
...
"inline": 'doc["<field name>"].value == "I can't escape single quote" ? 1 : 0', 
....

```

There is also some mentions to examples here [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/painless/current/painless-literals.html#string-literals](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/painless/current/painless-literals.html#string-literals)

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**Author:** ![WAFA\_Mardiney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wafa_mardiney/32/65461_2.png) [@WAFA\_Mardiney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WAFA_Mardiney)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 11:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/3 "2020-04-01T23:18:56Z")

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hi @tiagocosta,I tried the way you mentioned but it didn't work also i tried using backslash and all I get is error in json input like this:  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/3/53e7f0c718fb8ecb174fd9939f2c8bdabfa3f5f6.png)

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**Author:** ![tiagocosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagocosta/32/40045_2.png) [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/4 "2020-04-01T23:26:49Z")

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Have you tried to escape every single quote you have inside the main double quote string?

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**Author:** ![WAFA\_Mardiney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wafa_mardiney/32/65461_2.png) [@WAFA\_Mardiney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WAFA_Mardiney)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 11:34pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/5 "2020-04-01T23:34:58Z")

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thanks @tiagocosta for your replies, and yes i tried that also but nothing worked unfortunately.

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**Author:** ![tiagocosta](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tiagocosta/32/40045_2.png) [@tiagocosta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tiagocosta)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/6 "2020-04-01T23:51:34Z")

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@markov00 do you have any idea here?

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**Author:** ![markov00](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/markov00/32/33316_2.png) [@markov00](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/markov00)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2020, 11:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/7 "2020-04-01T23:59:57Z")

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Hi, could you please try:

```auto
{
  "script": {
    "inline": "doc['<field name>'].value == \"I can't escape single quote\" ? 1 : 0", 
    "lang": "painless"
  }
}

```

you should just escape double quote around your string

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**Author:** ![WAFA\_Mardiney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/wafa_mardiney/32/65461_2.png) [@WAFA\_Mardiney](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/WAFA_Mardiney)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/8 "2020-04-02T00:07:54Z")

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Thank you @markov00 and @tiagocosta , finally!! it worked.

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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:** [April 30, 2020, 12:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/cant-escape-single-quote-in-json-input-in-kibana-visualization/226007/9 "2020-04-30T00:07:57Z")

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