# 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")\
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**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")

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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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