# Partial & Exact Search on data with "-"

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-exact-search-on-data-with/34796>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 17, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-exact-search-on-data-with/34796 "2015-11-17T12:17:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![code\_blue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ea924/32.png) [@code\_blue](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/code_blue)\
**Post date:** [November 17, 2015, 12:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-exact-search-on-data-with/34796/1 "2015-11-17T12:17:34Z")

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We having the following data in documents:  
"abc-xyz-000"  
"abc-xyz-123-000"  
"abc-xyz"

When user searches with "abc" & "abc-xyz" all 3 documents needs to be returned.

What analyzer should be used?  
Sample Query Below  
{  
"query": {  
"multi\_match": {  
"query": "abc-xyz",  
"type": "cross\_fields",  
"operator": "and",  
"fields": ["first\_name", "last\_name"]  
}  
}  
}

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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:** [July 5, 2017, 11:37pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/partial-exact-search-on-data-with/34796/2 "2017-07-05T23:37:58Z")

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