# ES behaviour with characters like $ and @ in a query?
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-behaviour-with-characters-like-and-in-a-query/171400
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-behaviour-with-characters-like-and-in-a-query/171400 "2019-03-07T23:30:51Z")
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### Author:  [@neesha](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/neesha)
#### Post date: [March 7, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-behaviour-with-characters-like-and-in-a-query/171400/1 "2019-03-07T23:30:52Z")
I'm trying to test out how our system (and ES) actually change what a user is submitting into a query and what the expected response back should be. I have a post that has in it's content "Nee$ha". So I have submitted the search query of "nee$ha". In the response, I noticed that the highlighted information that comes back is:
`"[bold]nee[/bold]$[bold]ha[/bold]"`
When I run `nee$ha` through the analyzer, I notice it gets split into two tokens:
```auto
curl -X GET "localhost:9200/_analyze" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"analyzer": "standard",
"text": "nee$ha"
}'
```
Response:
```auto
{"tokens":[{"token":"nee","start_offset":0,"end_offset":3,"type":"","position":0},{"token":"ha","start_offset":4,"end_offset":6,"type":"","position":1}]}%
```
What I can't quite figure out, is what is actually happening in ES. I _think_ it's turning it into an `AND` query, requiring for both `nee` and `ha` in the same result. And that the `$` essentially is considered a delimiter between words much like a `.` or `,`. It's being passed into the query as `"query": "content:(\"nee$ha\")"` so it hasn't been explicitly turned into an `AND` and our default operator is an `OR`.
Is this the right interpretation? And, more so, how do I get it to actually search for the `$` and not ignore it?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 4, 2019, 11:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/es-behaviour-with-characters-like-and-in-a-query/171400/2 "2019-04-04T23:30:52Z")
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