# How to search exact string in array of string values

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-exact-string-in-array-of-string-values/193564>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [August 2, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-exact-string-in-array-of-string-values/193564 "2019-08-02T14:38:26Z")\
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**Author:** ![111189](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/111189/32/51536_2.png) [@111189](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/111189)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-exact-string-in-array-of-string-values/193564/1 "2019-08-02T14:38:26Z")

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This is my index

```

{
  "mappings": {
    "page": {
      "properties": {
        "company-product-skus": {
          "type": "text",
          "include_in_all": false,
          "analyzer": "keyword",
          "index": "not_analyzed"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

```

This is data i have  
``

```
...
"company-product-skus": [
  "5-pseudo",
  "4-test"
],
    ...
```

How should i query to fetch exact matched documents only ?

use case:  
query: 5-pseudo - return document  
query: 5-pseu - does not return

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![spinscale](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spinscale/32/25011_2.png) [@spinscale](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spinscale)\
**Post date:** [August 5, 2019, 11:25am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-exact-string-in-array-of-string-values/193564/2 "2019-08-05T11:25:30Z")

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Hey,

you can also just set the type to `keyword, see [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.2/keyword.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/7.2/keyword.html)

then running a `match` query for `5-pseudo` should only return an exact match.  
If this does not work, please share a full reproducible example.

Thanks!

--Alex

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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 2, 2019, 11:34am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-exact-string-in-array-of-string-values/193564/3 "2019-09-02T11:34:55Z")

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