# Escaping special characters is not working
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-is-not-working/16111
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [March 3, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-is-not-working/16111 "2014-03-03T14:56:30Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Geoff\_Longman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Geoff_Longman)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2014, 2:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-is-not-working/16111/1 "2014-03-03T14:56:30Z")
ES version 1.0.0
Using logstash 1.3.3
Logs include a human readable uuid field
mapping:
- agent\_id: { type: string}
example value stored in the index
2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb
I've seen postings about special characters in queries and how they can be
escaped
[http://lucene.apache.org/core/3\_4\_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters](http://lucene.apache.org/core/3_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html#Escaping%20Special%20Characters)
But if I try that technique on an index I know has many records that match
the uuid I get no hits.
{
"query": {
```
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"term": {
"agent_id": "2f2f4cd7\\-ac07\\-4689-8079\\-2b71cde6a3bb"
}
}
],
"must_not": [],
"should": []
}
```
},
"from": 0,
"size": 10,
"sort": [],
"facets": {}
}
Can anyone assist?
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Binh\_Ly\_2](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Binh_Ly_2)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2014, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-is-not-working/16111/2 "2014-03-03T19:38:32Z")
What you probably want is to do a term query on the agent\_id.raw field:
agent\_id.raw:2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb
Or if you want to type it straight into the query box:
agent\_id.raw:"2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb"
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### Author:  [@Geoff\_Longman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Geoff_Longman)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2014, 8:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-is-not-working/16111/3 "2014-03-03T20:22:54Z")
sorry, that didn't work.
We are going to store the uuids without the dashes. that seems to work.
thanks for the reply!
On Monday, March 3, 2014 2:38:32 PM UTC-5, Binh Ly wrote:
> What you probably want is to do a term query on the agent\_id.raw field:
>
> agent\_id.raw:2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb
>
> Or if you want to type it straight into the query box:
>
> agent\_id.raw:"2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb"
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### Author:  [@Geoff\_Longman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Geoff_Longman)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2014, 8:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-is-not-working/16111/4 "2014-03-03T20:23:55Z")
This seems to be an issue on elasticsearch 1.0.0 only?
On Monday, March 3, 2014 3:22:54 PM UTC-5, Geoff Longman wrote:
> sorry, that didn't work.
>
> We are going to store the uuids without the dashes. that seems to work.
>
> thanks for the reply!
>
> On Monday, March 3, 2014 2:38:32 PM UTC-5, Binh Ly wrote:
>
> > What you probably want is to do a term query on the agent\_id.raw field:
> >
> > agent\_id.raw:2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb
> >
> > Or if you want to type it straight into the query box:
> >
> > agent\_id.raw:"2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb"
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### Author:  [@Geoff\_Longman](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Geoff_Longman)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-is-not-working/16111/5 "2014-03-03T20:27:32Z")
d'oh. my test with agent\_id.raw worked. The problem was with the meat
computer between my chair and the keyboard.
thanks for your help.
On Monday, March 3, 2014 3:23:55 PM UTC-5, Geoff Longman wrote:
> This seems to be an issue on elasticsearch 1.0.0 only?
>
> On Monday, March 3, 2014 3:22:54 PM UTC-5, Geoff Longman wrote:
>
> > sorry, that didn't work.
> >
> > We are going to store the uuids without the dashes. that seems to work.
> >
> > thanks for the reply!
> >
> > On Monday, March 3, 2014 2:38:32 PM UTC-5, Binh Ly wrote:
> >
> > > What you probably want is to do a term query on the agent\_id.raw field:
> > >
> > > agent\_id.raw:2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb
> > >
> > > Or if you want to type it straight into the query box:
> > >
> > > agent\_id.raw:"2f2f4cd7-ac07-4689-8079-2b71cde6a3bb"
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/escaping-special-characters-is-not-working/16111/6 "2017-07-06T01:46:05Z")