# Issue on query string query for URL search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-on-query-string-query-for-url-search/152863>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 17, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-on-query-string-query-for-url-search/152863 "2018-10-17T14:31:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Prashant\_Agrawal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prashant_agrawal/32/74982_2.png) [@Prashant\_Agrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Agrawal)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2018, 2:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-on-query-string-query-for-url-search/152863/1 "2018-10-17T14:31:02Z")

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Hi,

I have pretty simple requirement to search the indexed data which has path (windows system path ) in it , but while searching I am getting 0 results. Can someone tell me whats I am doing wrong in this..

```
POST prashant/doc/1
{
  "id" : 1,
  "name" : "prashant",
  "Image" : "C:\\Windows\\splwow64.exe"
}

```

Now if I run POST prashant/\_search , I can see the data but when I run the below query I get 0 results..

```
POST prashant/_search?pretty
{
  "query": {
    "query_string": {
      "default_field": "Image",
      "query": "C:\\Windows\\splwow64.exe"
    }
  }
}

```

Any idea what I am doing wrong here..

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**Author:** ![Prashant\_Agrawal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prashant_agrawal/32/74982_2.png) [@Prashant\_Agrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Agrawal)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 11:08am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-on-query-string-query-for-url-search/152863/2 "2018-10-18T11:08:48Z")

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nvm got it working with this query ...

```
POST prashant/_search?pretty
{
  "query": {
    "query_string": {
      "default_field": "Image",
      "query": "\"C:\\\\Windows\\\\splwow64.exe\""
    }
  }
}
```

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**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 12:43pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-on-query-string-query-for-url-search/152863/3 "2018-10-18T12:43:34Z")

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Sorry! JSON escaping combined with `query_string` escaping reminds me of shell script escaping in a bad way.

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**Author:** ![Prashant\_Agrawal](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/prashant_agrawal/32/74982_2.png) [@Prashant\_Agrawal](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Prashant_Agrawal)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2018, 1:18pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-on-query-string-query-for-url-search/152863/4 "2018-10-18T13:18:29Z")

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Yes but unfortunately no other way to get that working for this kind of search using query\_string

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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:** [November 15, 2018, 1:23pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/issue-on-query-string-query-for-url-search/152863/5 "2018-11-15T13:23:33Z")

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