# How to found empty field in elasticsearch
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-found-empty-field-in-elasticsearch/157898
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 22, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-found-empty-field-in-elasticsearch/157898 "2018-11-22T14:52:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@mhsankar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mhsankar)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2018, 2:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-found-empty-field-in-elasticsearch/157898/1 "2018-11-22T14:52:28Z")
Hi
we have a mistake when insert data.
a field data type is text . we insert "" for data.
i cant search zero length field .
how can found like this record?
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 4:58pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-found-empty-field-in-elasticsearch/157898/2 "2018-11-23T16:58:32Z")
It would be better to reindex correctly.
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### Author:  [@mjunaidmuzammil](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/mjunaidmuzammil)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-found-empty-field-in-elasticsearch/157898/3 "2018-11-23T19:30:09Z")
Unfortunately for text type you can't search out empty strings. You can use the `exists` query and fetch all the document for which that field exists and perform an empty string comparison at the application layer.
You can take a look at a [similar post here.](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-an-empty-string/83070)
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2018, 7:30pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-found-empty-field-in-elasticsearch/157898/4 "2018-12-21T19:30:10Z")
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