# How to do case insensitive search on terms?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-case-insensitive-search-on-terms/19790>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 15, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-case-insensitive-search-on-terms/19790 "2014-09-15T15:44:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 15, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-do-case-insensitive-search-on-terms/19790/2 "2014-09-15T15:47:33Z")

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I assume you use the standard analyzer which uses by default a token filter  
"lowercase".

Just use a custom analyzer, without "lowercase" token filter, and you will  
get case-sensitive search.

Jörg

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 5:44 PM, John Smith [java.dev.mtl@gmail.com](mailto:java.dev.mtl@gmail.com) wrote:

> Using ES 1.3.2
> 
> The current application I'm building only uses term queries for exact  
> matches.
> 
> Example query
> 
> "query": {  
> "term": {  
> "logType": "abc"  
> }
> 
> The field logType is pulled from external DB as all caps so for instance  
> ABC
> 
> If i send the query
> 
> "query": {  
> "term": {  
> "logType": "ABC"  
> }
> 
> I get no results.
> 
> If I send the query
> 
> "query": {  
> "term": {  
> "logType": "abc"  
> }
> 
> I get results.
> 
> So does this mean I need to toLower the input before building the query or  
> there's an ES way of doing this?
> 
> Thanks
> 
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