# How to search special characters in elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-characters-in-elasticsearch/251997>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 14, 2020, 6:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-characters-in-elasticsearch/251997 "2020-10-14T06:54:43Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2020, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-search-special-characters-in-elasticsearch/251997/2 "2020-10-14T06:59:58Z")

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This is how it's analyzed:

```auto
POST _analyze
{
  "text": "9.999%",
  "tokenizer": "whitespace",
  "filter": ["lowercase", "word_delimiter"]
}

```

Gives:

```auto
{
  "tokens" : [
    {
      "token" : "9",
      "start_offset" : 0,
      "end_offset" : 1,
      "type" : "word",
      "position" : 0
    },
    {
      "token" : "999",
      "start_offset" : 2,
      "end_offset" : 5,
      "type" : "word",
      "position" : 1
    }
  ]
}

```

I'm not exactly sure about your use case.

Could you provide a full recreation script as described in [About the Elasticsearch category](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will help to better understand what you are doing. Please, try to keep the example as simple as possible.

A full reproduction script is something anyone can copy and paste in Kibana dev console, click on the run button to reproduce your use case. It will help readers to understand, reproduce and if needed fix your problem. It will also most likely help to get a faster answer.

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