# Lucene query syntax of exact match query in Kibana Discover view

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-query-syntax-of-exact-match-query-in-kibana-discover-view/219297>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [February 14, 2020, 1:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-query-syntax-of-exact-match-query-in-kibana-discover-view/219297 "2020-02-14T01:09:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Michael\_C.H\_Wang](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/michael_c.h_wang/32/54310_2.png) [@Michael\_C.H\_Wang](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Michael_C.H_Wang)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2020, 5:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/lucene-query-syntax-of-exact-match-query-in-kibana-discover-view/219297/2 "2020-02-14T05:22:07Z")

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I find myself this discussion might help.

> [@String query - exact string](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/string-query-exact-string/176883):
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> Hello everyone: I m doing the following filtering: beat.hostname:APS01 AND program\_name:"deadline" And I get the results: Unfortunately, I don't want to include "deadline\_balancer" here. When I filter: "beat.hostname:APS01 AND program\_name:"deadline\_balancer" it's all good: Can you please let me know how to accomplish this? The only Info I found in the documentation is: "To search for an exact string, you need to wrap the string in double quotation marks. Without quotation…

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