# Elastic search Query : Is there any way to control the output of a search query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-is-there-any-way-to-control-the-output-of-a-search-query/10739
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 14, 2013, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-is-there-any-way-to-control-the-output-of-a-search-query/10739 "2013-02-14T09:14:50Z")
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### Author:  [@mohit\_Kumar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mohit_Kumar)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 9:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-is-there-any-way-to-control-the-output-of-a-search-query/10739/1 "2013-02-14T09:14:50Z")
Hi folks
Is there any way to control the output of a search query.
For example
Put Query:
{
"Message Data" = "Hello dear how are you? I am going for shopping. Would
you like to have something."
}
Get Query:
how can i create my get to to retrieve value from message data till "hello
dear how are you"?
Thanks and regards
Mohit Kumar Yadav
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### Author:  [@radu\_gheorghe](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/radu_gheorghe)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 9:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-is-there-any-way-to-control-the-output-of-a-search-query/10739/2 "2013-02-14T09:59:53Z")
Hello Mohit,
If what you want is to get partial contents from fields, then I think
you're stuck with doing it from your application.
If you need to only retrieve certain fields, you can do it by specifying
which fields you want:
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On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Mohit Kumar Yadav \<
[mohit.kumar.ngi@gmail.com](mailto:mohit.kumar.ngi@gmail.com)\> wrote:
> Hi folks
> Is there any way to control the output of a search query.
> For example
> Put Query:
> {
> "Message Data" = "Hello dear how are you? I am going for shopping.
> Would you like to have something."
> }
>
> Get Query:
> how can i create my get to to retrieve value from message data till "hello
> dear how are you"?
>
> Thanks and regards
> Mohit Kumar Yadav
>
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### Author:  [@sujoysett](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/sujoysett)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-is-there-any-way-to-control-the-output-of-a-search-query/10739/3 "2013-02-14T14:36:22Z")
Hi,
Not exactly sure whether it will be applicable in your case .... but script
fields might be useful for you.
You can try searching for first punctuation and trimming upto that, or
something similar depending upon your requirement.
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On Thursday, February 14, 2013 2:44:50 PM UTC+5:30, Mohit Kumar Yadav wrote:
> Hi folks
> Is there any way to control the output of a search query.
> For example
> Put Query:
> {
> "Message Data" = "Hello dear how are you? I am going for shopping.
> Would you like to have something."
> }
>
> Get Query:
> how can i create my get to to retrieve value from message data till "hello
> dear how are you"?
>
> Thanks and regards
> Mohit Kumar Yadav
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/elastic-search-query-is-there-any-way-to-control-the-output-of-a-search-query/10739/4 "2017-07-06T02:51:26Z")