# How to enable special character(eg - @) search with wildcard search in elasticsearch **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 21, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-character-eg-search-with-wildcard-search-in-elasticsearch/181996 "2019-05-21T12:32:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jaya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/22d042/32.png) [@jaya](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/jaya)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2019, 12:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-character-eg-search-with-wildcard-search-in-elasticsearch/181996/1 "2019-05-21T12:32:02Z")
Hi , I am using a simple mapping with multifield - "entityName": { "type": "text", "fields": { "keyword": { "type": "keyword", "ignore\_above": 256 } } }, This field contains email Ids of user like - [example@sample.com](mailto:example@sample.com) I am using a wildcard query to search in this field boolQueryBuilder.should(QueryBuilders.wildcardQuery(entityName, "_example@_")); Or boolQueryBuilder.should(QueryBuilders.wildcardQuery(entityName, "_example@sample_")); Or boolQueryBuilder.should(QueryBuilders.wildcardQuery(entityName, "\*@ \*")); And I am getting 0 results. I have docs with entityName = ëxample@sample.com in elasticsearch. Could you please help me in how I could enable special characters in searching. I check query without special character is working fine. Any help would be highly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2019, 12:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-character-eg-search-with-wildcard-search-in-elasticsearch/181996/2 "2019-06-18T12:41:13Z")
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