# Completion Suggester with Exact Starting Match and Whitespace Separated Words
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completion-suggester-with-exact-starting-match-and-whitespace-separated-words/82274
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [April 13, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completion-suggester-with-exact-starting-match-and-whitespace-separated-words/82274 "2017-04-13T10:39:58Z")
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### Author:  [@foobarbaz](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/foobarbaz)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2017, 10:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completion-suggester-with-exact-starting-match-and-whitespace-separated-words/82274/1 "2017-04-13T10:39:58Z")
Following the completion suggester example from here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-suggesters-completion.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/search-suggesters-completion.html)
Having trouble understanding how to index titles that have spaces. With the following index/mapping:
```
curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/social?pretty' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"mappings": {
"post" : {
"properties" : {
"suggest" : {
"type" : "completion"
},
"title" : {
"type": "keyword"
}
}
}
}
}
'
```
Adding a suggest with a space like so:
```
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/social/post' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' '{"suggest":{"input":"Alec Baldwin","weight":4}}'
```
Produces the following error:
```
`{"error":{"root_cause":[{"type":"mapper_parsing_exception","reason":"failed to parse"}],"type":"mapper_parsing_exception","reason":"failed to parse","caused_by":{"type":"json_e_o_f_exception","reason":"Unexpected end-of-input in VALUE_STRING\n at [Source: org.elasticsearch.common.bytes.BytesReference$MarkSupportingStreamInputWrapper@691d96c0; line: 1, column: 51]"}},"status":400}curl: (3) [globbing] unmatched close brace/bracket in column 16`
```
If the space is turned into a dash:
```
curl -XPOST 'localhost:9200/social/post' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' '{"suggest":{"input":"Alec-Baldwin","weight":4}}'
```
The suggest is successfully indexed:
```
{"_index":"social","_type":"post","_id":"AVtmxoQVIOBiOQZhZa8Y","_version":1,"result":"created","_shards":{"total":2,"successful":1,"failed":0},"created":true}
```
Have successfully indexed by splitting by space and indexing as an array like `{"suggest":{"input":["Alec", "Baldwin"],"weight":4}}` however when sending the completion suggester "Ale", this produces other matches like `young alec baldwin` which is undesired (these are programatically generated, too many to filter out manually); only interested in exact starting matches like `Alec Baldwin` or `Alec Baldwin Jr`.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated!
Best,
Joshua
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2017, 10:49am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/completion-suggester-with-exact-starting-match-and-whitespace-separated-words/82274/2 "2017-05-11T10:49:02Z")
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