# Finding partial numerics

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-partial-numerics/50862>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 24, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-partial-numerics/50862 "2016-05-24T15:18:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![PascalR](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/258eb7/32.png) [@PascalR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/PascalR)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 3:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-partial-numerics/50862/1 "2016-05-24T15:18:57Z")

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Hello everyone!

Is there a way to get results for fields with numeric values and a search string which contains only a part of a number?

Like, there is a field called tour\_id with the value 24311 and my search string is "431", so my resultset must contain all tour\_ids with "431" in it.

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2016, 9:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-partial-numerics/50862/2 "2016-05-24T21:44:29Z")

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You can use something like [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/query-dsl-wildcard-query.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.3/query-dsl-wildcard-query.html), but it might be expensive.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2017, 10:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/finding-partial-numerics/50862/3 "2017-07-05T22:49:19Z")

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