# prefixFilter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefixfilter/4927>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 22, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefixfilter/4927 "2011-07-22T11:41:14Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Jan\_Kriesten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/43a26b/32.png) [@Jan\_Kriesten](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jan_Kriesten)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2011, 11:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefixfilter/4927/1 "2011-07-22T11:41:14Z")

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Hi,

I don't get matches when using prefixFilter. Neither

prefixFilter( attributename, value ) );

nor

queryFilter( prefixQuery( attributename, value ) ) );

result in a match.

Using

queryFilter( fieldQuery( attributename, value + "\*" ) ) );

works though. Any hint, what I'm doing wrong?

Best regards, --- Jan.

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2011, 2:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefixfilter/4927/2 "2011-07-24T02:14:08Z")

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Are you sure that analysis does not come into play here? Can you gist a curl  
recreation? ([http://www.elaticsearch.org/help](http://www.elaticsearch.org/help)).

On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jan Kriesten [kriesten@mail.footprint.de](mailto:kriesten@mail.footprint.de)wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I don't get matches when using prefixFilter. Neither
> 
> prefixFilter( attributename, value ) );
> 
> nor
> 
> queryFilter( prefixQuery( attributename, value ) ) );
> 
> result in a match.
> 
> Using
> 
> queryFilter( fieldQuery( attributename, value + "\*" ) ) );
> 
> works though. Any hint, what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> Best regards, --- Jan.

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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 6, 2017, 3:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/prefixfilter/4927/3 "2017-07-06T03:59:42Z")

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