# How do I perform a wildcard search against a single field?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-wildcard-search-against-a-single-field/53829>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [June 23, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-wildcard-search-against-a-single-field/53829 "2016-06-23T20:53:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kai\_Tea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/97f17d/32.png) [@Kai\_Tea](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Kai_Tea)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2016, 8:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-wildcard-search-against-a-single-field/53829/1 "2016-06-23T20:53:47Z")

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Hi,

How do I perform a wildcard search against a single field?

I tried the following in kibana search bar:  
`http_request_path: "*openorders*"`

but it returns results in Kibana for any fields where its value contains "openorders"

How do have it only return results only if the http\_request\_path field has values of `"*openorders*"`

Thanks

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**Author:** ![tsullivan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/tsullivan/32/31077_2.png) [@tsullivan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tsullivan)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2016, 7:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-wildcard-search-against-a-single-field/53829/2 "2016-06-24T19:36:44Z")

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You are probably getting an issue because of the double-quotes. Can you try without them? I.e `http_request_path: *openorders*`

You can also try doing a [wildcard search using a JSON query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-wildcard-query.html), such as

```auto
{ "wildcard": { "http_request_path": "*openorders*" } }

```

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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 6, 2017, 1:49pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-do-i-perform-a-wildcard-search-against-a-single-field/53829/3 "2017-07-06T13:49:15Z")

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