# Exact Phrase Match on a not\_analyzed field with a space in the phrase
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-phrase-match-on-a-not-analyzed-field-with-a-space-in-the-phrase/14251
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 4, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-phrase-match-on-a-not-analyzed-field-with-a-space-in-the-phrase/14251 "2013-11-04T21:51:07Z")
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### Author:  [@Edwin\_Frey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edwin_Frey)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-phrase-match-on-a-not-analyzed-field-with-a-space-in-the-phrase/14251/1 "2013-11-04T21:51:07Z")
Good afternoon,
I'm trying to boost a query that has an exact match on a field (in this
case a name field). I've looked on Stack overflow and in this group and
all of the answers seem to be set the field to not\_analyzed. I have done
this; however, it doesn't return anything when I search for a proper name.
It appears to affect anything with a space in it (I have a couple fields
that I do a similar mapping on). I have created an example of what I am
seeing here: [https://gist.github.com/edwinf/d422f0e66a0022173b44](https://gist.github.com/edwinf/d422f0e66a0022173b44). I know
I'm probably doing something very simple wrong but cannot figure it out.
Any advise would be appreciated!
Thank you
-Ed
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### Author:  [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2013, 10:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-phrase-match-on-a-not-analyzed-field-with-a-space-in-the-phrase/14251/2 "2013-11-04T22:05:43Z")
I think you need to decide exactly how exact "exact" is.
Is it character for character? That is not\_analyzed.
Is it character for character modulo case? That is the keyword analyzer
with a lower\_case token filter.
Is it just the words that should match but any spaces? Can the words be in
any order? That is a phrase query on a field analyzed without stemming.
Is it ok if the words are conjugated differently so long as the words are
close enough? That is a phrase query on a field analyzed with stemming.
Is it that all the words should be there but you don't care how close they
are? That is a query with the operator set to AND.
On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Edwin Frey [crazyoatmeal@gmail.com](mailto:crazyoatmeal@gmail.com) wrote:
> Good afternoon,
> I'm trying to boost a query that has an exact match on a field (in
> this case a name field). I've looked on Stack overflow and in this group
> and all of the answers seem to be set the field to not\_analyzed. I have
> done this; however, it doesn't return anything when I search for a proper
> name. It appears to affect anything with a space in it (I have a couple
> fields that I do a similar mapping on). I have created an example of what
> I am seeing here: [Not Analyzed field not returning exact match. I'm doing something wrong. · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/edwinf/d422f0e66a0022173b44). I
> know I'm probably doing something very simple wrong but cannot figure it
> out. Any advise would be appreciated!
>
> Thank you
> -Ed
>
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### Author:  [@Edwin\_Frey](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Edwin_Frey)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2013, 3:31am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-phrase-match-on-a-not-analyzed-field-with-a-space-in-the-phrase/14251/3 "2013-11-05T03:31:02Z")
From your list, not\_analyzed is what we want (although I could also
convince them that keyword is just as good). I'm just confused as to why a
query search isn't returning any data when I have what should be an exact
match on the not\_analyzed field.
On Monday, November 4, 2013 5:05:43 PM UTC-5, Nikolas Everett wrote:
> I think you need to decide exactly how exact "exact" is.
>
> Is it character for character? That is not\_analyzed.
> Is it character for character modulo case? That is the keyword analyzer
> with a lower\_case token filter.
> Is it just the words that should match but any spaces? Can the words be
> in any order? That is a phrase query on a field analyzed without stemming.
> Is it ok if the words are conjugated differently so long as the words are
> close enough? That is a phrase query on a field analyzed with stemming.
> Is it that all the words should be there but you don't care how close they
> are? That is a query with the operator set to AND.
>
> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Edwin Frey \<[crazyo...@gmail.com](mailto:crazyo...@gmail.com)\
>
> > wrote:
>
> > Good afternoon,
> > I'm trying to boost a query that has an exact match on a field (in
> > this case a name field). I've looked on Stack overflow and in this group
> > and all of the answers seem to be set the field to not\_analyzed. I have
> > done this; however, it doesn't return anything when I search for a proper
> > name. It appears to affect anything with a space in it (I have a couple
> > fields that I do a similar mapping on). I have created an example of what
> > I am seeing here: [Not Analyzed field not returning exact match. I'm doing something wrong. · GitHub](https://gist.github.com/edwinf/d422f0e66a0022173b44).
> > I know I'm probably doing something very simple wrong but cannot figure it
> > out. Any advise would be appreciated!
> >
> > Thank you
> > -Ed
> >
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/exact-phrase-match-on-a-not-analyzed-field-with-a-space-in-the-phrase/14251/4 "2017-07-06T02:08:56Z")