# Highlighting issue with wildcard query string query **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 10, 2016, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-issue-with-wildcard-query-string-query/44017 "2016-03-10T11:05:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![drippel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drippel/32/44823_2.png) [@drippel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drippel)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 11:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-issue-with-wildcard-query-string-query/44017/1 "2016-03-10T11:05:07Z")
I have an index where the default indexing analyzer is defined this way: ``` "default" : { "filter" : [ "english_possessive_stemmer", "segment_worddelimiter", "lowercase", "english_stemmer", "english_common_grams_index", "english_phonetic_filter" ], "char_filter" : [ "html_strip" ], "type" : "custom", "tokenizer" : "english_pattern_tokenizer" } ``` where the tokenizer is defined like this : ``` "english_pattern_tokenizer" : { "flags" : "UNICODE_CHAR_CLASS", "pattern" : "\s+", "type" : "pattern", "group" : "-1" } ``` and the common grams filter is defined like this : ``` "english_common_grams_index" : { "ignore_case" : "true", "type" : "common_grams", "query_mode" : "false", "common_words" : [ // here comes a long list of english stop-words ] } ``` and the phonetic filter is defined as: ``` "english_phonetic_filter" : { "max_code_len" : "4", "replace" : "false", "type" : "phonetic", "encoder" : "doublemetaphone" } ``` I index the following document : ``` { "message" : "training with the stars in English does not interest them or us in the U.S." } ``` Now I run the following search : ``` { "query" : { "bool" : { "should" : { "query_string" : { "query" : "sta*", "fields" : [ "message" ], "analyzer": "standard" } } } }, "highlight" : { "pre_tags" : [ "" ], "post_tags" : [ "" ], "fragment_size" : 0, "number_of_fragments" : 0, "require_field_match" : false, "fields" : { "message" : {} } } } ``` and I get the following hit : ``` { "_index" : "fts-english", "_type" : "Document", "_id" : "AVNfwtiy7ixxxIg9v3K6", "_score" : 1, "_source" : { "message" : "training with the stars in English does not interest them or us in the U.S." }, "highlight" : { "message" : [ "training with the stars in English does not interest them or us in the U.S." ] } } ``` The problem is that the highlight catches "stars in" instead of only "stars". ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2016, 12:08pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-issue-with-wildcard-query-string-query/44017/2 "2016-03-10T12:08:24Z")
Weird. It'd be useful to know the output of the analyze API for that message. Also might be useful to know which highlighter you are using - for that you need to know the mapping. ---
**Author:** ![drippel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drippel/32/44823_2.png) [@drippel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drippel)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 10:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-issue-with-wildcard-query-string-query/44017/3 "2016-03-13T10:12:15Z")
Thanks for your message, nik9000. The analyze output for the "default" indexing analyzer, as seen in the Inquisitor site plugin, is : `train 0 TRN 0 train_with 0 TRN0 0 TRNT 0 with 1 A0 1 FT 1 with_the 1 A00 1 FTT 1 the 2 0 2 T 2 the_star 2 0STR 2 TSTR 2 star 3 STR 3 star_in 3 STRN 3 in 4 AN 4 in_english 4 ANNK 4 ANNL 4 english 5 ANKL 5 ANLX 5 doe 6 T 6 doe_not 6 TNT 6 not 7 NT 7 not_interest 7 NTNT 7 interest 8 ANTR 8 interest_them 8 ANTR 8 them 9 0M 9 TM 9 them_or 9 0MR 9 TMR 9 or 10 AR 10 or_us 10 ARS 10 us 11 AS 11 us_in 11 ASN 11 in 12 AN 12 in_the 12 AN0 12 ANT 12 the 13 0 13 T 13 the_u.s.13 0S 13 TS 13 u.s.14 AS 14` the analyze output for the standard analyzer that I use for search is : `training 0 with 1 the 2 stars 3 in 4 english 5 does 6 not 7 interest 8 them 9 or 10 us 11 in 12 the 13 u.s 14` I use the default highlighter, and the mapping for this index is : ``` "mappings" : { "system" : { "properties" : { "ftsIndexVersion" : { "type" : "long" }, "message" : { "type" : "string" } } }, "Document" : { "dynamic_templates" : [{ "not_analyzed_fields" : { "match_pattern" : "regex", "mapping" : { "include_in_all" : false, "index" : "not_analyzed", "type" : "string" }, "match" : "(language|doc_id)" } } ], "properties" : { "TweetPost__User URL" : { "type" : "string" }, "TweetPost__Body" : { "type" : "string" }, "streamId" : { "type" : "long" }, "WordB" : { "type" : "string" }, "WordC" : { "type" : "string" }, "TweetPost__Full Name" : { "type" : "string" }, "WordA" : { "type" : "string" }, "language" : { "include_in_all" : false, "index" : "not_analyzed", "type" : "string" }, "TweetPost__User ID" : { "type" : "string" }, "TweetPost__Username" : { "type" : "string" }, "message" : { "type" : "string" }, "doc_id" : { "include_in_all" : false, "index" : "not_analyzed", "type" : "string" }, "TweetPost__Profile Image URL" : { "type" : "string" }, "TweetPost__Tweet ID" : { "type" : "string" }, "TweetPost__Post Time (Label)" : { "type" : "string" }, "postDate" : { "format" : "strict_date_optional_time||epoch_millis", "type" : "date" }, "user" : { "type" : "string" }, "TweetPost__Tweet URL" : { "type" : "string" } } } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![drippel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/drippel/32/44823_2.png) [@drippel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/drippel)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2016, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-issue-with-wildcard-query-string-query/44017/4 "2016-03-30T06:10:31Z")
Can anybody from Elastic look at this, please? 😕 ---
**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, 11:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/highlighting-issue-with-wildcard-query-string-query/44017/5 "2017-07-05T23:04:11Z")