# I can't find occurrences of the character "="

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-find-occurrences-of-the-character/244197
**Category:** Kibana
**Tags:** kql-kibana-query-language
**Created:** [August 7, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-find-occurrences-of-the-character/244197 "2020-08-07T16:14:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![blenolopes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/blenolopes/32/60799_2.png) [@blenolopes](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/blenolopes)
#### Post date: [August 7, 2020, 4:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-find-occurrences-of-the-character/244197/1 "2020-08-07T16:14:27Z")

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Hello,

I have a problem that seemed simple, but I am not able to solve it.

In my log, field "message" I have a string:

`8273832 ===> 8278213`

How do I search for occurrences of the string "===" via Kibana search?

I've tried things like:

```
message:===
message:"==="
message:"\=\=\="
message:\=\=\=

```

among others and none returned the result that is in the log.

I thank you for your help.

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### Author: ![Marta\_Bondyra](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marta_bondyra/32/102122_2.png) [@Marta\_Bondyra](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marta_Bondyra)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-find-occurrences-of-the-character/244197/2 "2020-08-12T10:18:15Z")

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Hi @blenolopes,

I think the cause might be that "message" uses the standard analyzer which by default which  
strips the = symbol. More about analyzers you can read here: [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-analyzers.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/analysis-analyzers.html)  
Here's the post with similar problem to yours and a set of steps that could help you (in response):  
[How to Index special characters and Search those special characters in Elasticsearch](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-index-special-characters-and-search-those-special-characters-in-elasticsearch/42506/2)

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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 9, 2020, 10:18am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/i-cant-find-occurrences-of-the-character/244197/3 "2020-09-09T10:18:21Z")

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