# Painless query for getting contains and substring in a field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-query-for-getting-contains-and-substring-in-a-field/176415>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [April 11, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-query-for-getting-contains-and-substring-in-a-field/176415 "2019-04-11T13:56:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jravella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ac8455/32.png) [@Jravella](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jravella)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-query-for-getting-contains-and-substring-in-a-field/176415/1 "2019-04-11T13:56:17Z")

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i have field api which has uri like /someapp/api/v4/bdq/rules/334882 requirement to retrieve only v4 from all uri

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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:** [May 9, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/painless-query-for-getting-contains-and-substring-in-a-field/176415/2 "2019-05-09T13:56:19Z")

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