# Keyword with special character
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-with-special-character/168209
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 13, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-with-special-character/168209 "2019-02-13T12:12:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@srikanthkadem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthkadem)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 12:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-with-special-character/168209/1 "2019-02-13T12:12:06Z")
Hi ,
Can Anyone help how to request ES to treat the words saparated with a special character as single word.
for e.g I have 100-01 in one of the column but when I try to search ES giving 100 & 01 both results.
I read about some word delimiter , but my data already available in ES and I want to manage this during Search.
Please help.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 12:51pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-with-special-character/168209/2 "2019-02-13T12:51:36Z")
Change the mapping to be `keyword` instead of `text`. You need to reindex for that.
If you don't want to reindex, share the typical query you are running and the current mapping.
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### Author:  [@srikanthkadem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthkadem)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 1:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-with-special-character/168209/3 "2019-02-13T13:22:03Z")
thanks for the reply , Actually I was using Dynamic mapping and it is creating keyword field inside for each text field.however I am not able to utilize the keyword field as I am new to ES. I was facing same issue for distinct values aggregation as well. can you please help me on this.
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### Author:  [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2019, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-with-special-character/168209/4 "2019-02-13T14:06:54Z")
So search using a Term query on field `PartNumber.keyword`.
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### Author:  [@srikanthkadem](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srikanthkadem)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-with-special-character/168209/5 "2019-02-14T11:14:55Z")
Thank you for reply @dadoonet
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2019, 11:15am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/keyword-with-special-character/168209/6 "2019-03-14T11:15:08Z")
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