# Colon in search value
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colon-in-search-value/176026
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colon-in-search-value/176026 "2019-04-09T12:58:36Z")
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### Author:  [@Akaren](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Akaren)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colon-in-search-value/176026/1 "2019-04-09T12:58:36Z")
Hello,
how should I write query with colon in search value?
```
{"size":0,"_source":["attrs.from"],
"query":{"bool":{"must":[
{"range":{"@timestamp":{"gte":1554792885000,"lte":1554814485000,"format":"epoch_millis"}}},
{"query_string":{"query":"attrs.r-
uri:sip\\:example.org","analyze_wildcard":true,"fuzzy_max_expansions":0,"fuzziness":0}},
]}},
"aggs":{"agg":{"date_histogram":
{"field":"@timestamp","interval":"5m","time_zone":"Europe/Berlin","min_doc_count":1},
"aggs":{"agg":{"terms":{"field":"attrs.type","size":30,"order":{"_count":"desc"}}}}}}}.
```
As you can see I was trying to use `uri:sip\\:example.org` or `uri:sip\:example.org` but no success so far
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 7, 2019, 12:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/colon-in-search-value/176026/2 "2019-05-07T12:58:41Z")
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