# How to search a keyword with spaces inside Kibana KQL?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-a-keyword-with-spaces-inside-kibana-kql/262912>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Tags:** kql-kibana-query-language\
**Created:** [February 1, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-a-keyword-with-spaces-inside-kibana-kql/262912 "2021-02-01T22:44:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![asp0818](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@asp0818](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/asp0818)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-a-keyword-with-spaces-inside-kibana-kql/262912/1 "2021-02-01T22:44:23Z")

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Hi,

I'm trying to narrow down my search for the iphone with OS 14. However there is space in between. How can I extract this from the field type?  
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14\_1 like Mac OS X)

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![aaron-nimocks](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron-nimocks/32/73965_2.png) [@aaron-nimocks](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/aaron-nimocks)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-a-keyword-with-spaces-inside-kibana-kql/262912/2 "2021-02-01T23:26:03Z")

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I couldn't find it in the documentation but I don't believe you can use wildcards with phrases.

I think you are looking to do something like `message: "*iPhone OS 14*"` but that won't work.

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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:** [March 1, 2021, 11:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-a-keyword-with-spaces-inside-kibana-kql/262912/3 "2021-03-01T23:26:37Z")

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