# How to enable special characters search in simple query string

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-characters-search-in-simple-query-string/245973>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 22, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-characters-search-in-simple-query-string/245973 "2020-08-22T06:10:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![divya005](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/da6949/32.png) [@divya005](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/divya005)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 6:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-characters-search-in-simple-query-string/245973/1 "2020-08-22T06:10:28Z")

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Hi Team,

I have to enable search for all type of special character when using simple query string.  
Please help me wit analyzer and tokeniser which is to use.

Thanks,  
Divya

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-characters-search-in-simple-query-string/245973/2 "2020-08-22T07:30:43Z")

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This thread looks exactly the same as [How to enable special characters search in simple query string](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-characters-search-in-simple-query-string/245973), do you have multiple accounts?

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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:** [September 19, 2020, 7:30am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-enable-special-characters-search-in-simple-query-string/245973/3 "2020-09-19T07:30:45Z")

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