# How to store data into index field in starts (\*) like password data?

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**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [December 1, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-data-into-index-field-in-starts-like-password-data/21014 "2014-12-01T19:57:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![Subbarao\_Kondragunta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b2d939/32.png) [@Subbarao\_Kondragunta](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Subbarao_Kondragunta)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2014, 7:57pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-data-into-index-field-in-starts-like-password-data/21014/1 "2014-12-01T19:57:12Z")

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how to store data into index field in starts (\*) like password data ?

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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:** [December 1, 2014, 9:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-data-into-index-field-in-starts-like-password-data/21014/2 "2014-12-01T21:12:34Z")

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Don't store them!  
You could use source exclude filter to remove them at index time if you really can't do it on a client level.

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> Le 1 déc. 2014 à 20:57, Subbarao Kondragunta [subbu2personal@gmail.com](mailto:subbu2personal@gmail.com) a écrit :
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> ## how to store data into index field in starts (\*) like password data ?
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-store-data-into-index-field-in-starts-like-password-data/21014/3 "2017-07-06T00:46:45Z")

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Closed on July 6, 2017, 12:46am UTC


