# Creating a raw field mapping searchable by regexes with spaces
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-raw-field-mapping-searchable-by-regexes-with-spaces/243117
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [July 29, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-raw-field-mapping-searchable-by-regexes-with-spaces/243117 "2020-07-29T19:56:18Z")
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### Author:  [@Supermathie](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Supermathie)
#### Post date: [July 29, 2020, 7:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-raw-field-mapping-searchable-by-regexes-with-spaces/243117/1 "2020-07-29T19:56:18Z")
On Elastic 6.6, I'm trying to create an index that supports a regex search when the regex has spaces in it.
I see older references to [`not_analyzed`](https://stackoverflow.com/q/18235996/93180) that no longer apply to modern versions of Elasticsearch.
I've tried, for example:
```auto
PUT /_template/other
{
"index_patterns": ["other", "other-*"],
"mappings": {
"other": {
"properties": {
"message": {
"index": true,
"type": "text",
"fields": {
"raw": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "keyword"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
```
and variations:
```auto
"raw": {
"type": "keyword"
}
```
but can't figure out how to get it to work with a simple document like:
```auto
POST /other-testing/other
{
"message": "hello there I'm testing spaces"
}
```
and a search such as:
```auto
{
"regexp": {
"message": {
"value": ".*testing .*"
}
}
}
```
---
### Author:  [@Mark\_Harwood](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mark_Harwood)
#### Post date: [August 3, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-raw-field-mapping-searchable-by-regexes-with-spaces/243117/2 "2020-08-03T08:59:26Z")
The problem is you create a variant of the field called "raw" but didn't refer to it in the query by it's name (`message.raw`).
Working example below:
```
DELETE test
PUT test
{
"mappings": {
"_doc": {
"properties": {
"message": {
"type": "text"
,"fields":{
"raw":{
"type":"keyword"
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
POST test/_doc/1
{
"message":"hello there I'm testing spaces"
}
GET test/_search
{
"query": {
"regexp": {
"message.raw": {
"value": ".*testing .*"
}
}
}
}
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2020, 8:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/creating-a-raw-field-mapping-searchable-by-regexes-with-spaces/243117/3 "2020-08-31T08:59:29Z")
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