# Possible bug?!

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-bug/102476
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 2, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-bug/102476 "2017-10-02T19:38:23Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
**Page:** 1

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### Author: ![tjh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@tjh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tjh)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-bug/102476/1 "2017-10-02T19:38:23Z")

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POST seekandsolve3/thread/\_update\_by\_query  
{  
"query": {  
"match\_all": {}  
},  
"script": {  
"inline": "String foo = ctx.\_source.question.tags; if(foo.length()\>0){ctx.\_source.question.tags\_completion = /\s/.split(foo)}"  
}  
}

This does not work ????!!!!, while the code above does:

POST seekandsolve3/thread/\_update\_by\_query  
{  
"query": {  
"match\_all": {}  
},  
"script": {  
"inline": """  
String foo = ctx.\_source.question.tags;  
if(foo.length()\>0){ctx.\_source.question.tags\_completion = /\s/.split(foo)}  
"""  
}  
}

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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: [October 30, 2017, 7:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/possible-bug/102476/2 "2017-10-30T19:38:25Z")

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