# Fuzzy search with space
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-with-space/31685
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 6, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-with-space/31685 "2015-10-06T10:20:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@kodermax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kodermax)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2015, 10:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-with-space/31685/1 "2015-10-06T10:20:51Z")
How can i search with space
my query:
$params = [
'index' =\> 'port',
'type' =\> 'contact',
'size' =\> 50,
'body' =\> [
'query' =\> [
'fuzzy' =\> [
'full\_name' =\> [
'value' =\> $value,
"boost" =\> 1.0,
"fuzziness" =\> 1,
"prefix\_length" =\> 0,
"max\_expansions" =\> 100,
'operator' =\> 'and'
]
]
]
]
];
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### Author:  [@softwaredoug](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/softwaredoug)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2015, 6:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-with-space/31685/2 "2015-10-06T18:43:20Z")
You need to [control analysis](http://opensourceconnections.com/blog/2015/09/18/the-simple-power-of-elasticsearch-analyzers/), either at query time or index time, to not tokenize on spaces. Lucene-based search is token first. Fuzzy queries generate wildcard and term queries to search that leverage the underlying term-base index.
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### Author:  [@kodermax](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kodermax)
#### Post date: [October 6, 2015, 6:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-with-space/31685/3 "2015-10-06T18:56:48Z")
I use this variant.
$params = [
'index' =\> 'portal',
'type' =\> 'contact',
'size' =\> 50,
'body' =\> [
'query' =\> [
'match' =\> [
'full\_name' =\> [
'query' =\> $value,
'operator' =\> 'and',
'fuzziness' =\> 1
]
]
]
]
];
It's ok?
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/fuzzy-search-with-space/31685/4 "2017-07-05T23:46:26Z")