# Forming query with extra quotation marks

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forming-query-with-extra-quotation-marks/264991>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 21, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forming-query-with-extra-quotation-marks/264991 "2021-02-21T16:33:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Shahsha\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Shahsha\_21](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shahsha_21)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 4:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forming-query-with-extra-quotation-marks/264991/1 "2021-02-21T16:33:03Z")

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I am trying to mimic Kibana's search query via Elasticsearch's query string. For e.g. in Kibana I can search like this with the quotation marks:  
"ABC" AND "CDE"  
When I try to create this query string it throws a syntax error:  
{  
"query": {  
"query\_string": {  
"fields": ["messages"]  
"query": ""ABC" AND "CDE"" (syntax error occurs here)  
}  
}  
}  
How can I form this query so that it can accept the quotation marks?

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**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\
**Post date:** [February 21, 2021, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forming-query-with-extra-quotation-marks/264991/2 "2021-02-21T17:53:08Z")

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> [@Shahsha\_21](#):
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> "query": ""ABC" AND "CDE""

Would need to esacape the doube quotes. Something like

`"query": "\"ABC\" AND \"CDE\""`

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**Author:** ![Shahsha\_21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@Shahsha\_21](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Shahsha_21)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forming-query-with-extra-quotation-marks/264991/3 "2021-02-24T17:13:13Z")

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This works fine with reserved characters but I have strings with unreserved characters such as a dot (.). For e.g. a string like "BAD.IJH.KLM"  
The escape character does not seem to work with such strings. How can I modify my query in this case? Thanks!

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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:** [March 24, 2021, 5:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/forming-query-with-extra-quotation-marks/264991/4 "2021-03-24T17:13:46Z")

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