# Query for X Y or Z using match
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-x-y-or-z-using-match/98217
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [August 24, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-x-y-or-z-using-match/98217 "2017-08-24T11:09:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@tomer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomer)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 11:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-x-y-or-z-using-match/98217/1 "2017-08-24T11:09:26Z")
Continuing the discussion from [Query (must be X) and (must (Z or Y)](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-must-be-x-and-must-z-or-y/87855/2):
Hi I built:
```
GET filebeat-*/log/_search
{
"query": {
"bool":{
"must": [
"should" : [
{"match" : {"clientId": "tomer"}}
]
],
"must": [
{"term" : {"terminationCause": "SUCCESS"}}
]
}
}
}
```
The question is there a way to use "match" for multiple terms, instead of the "terms" query?
(when I simply replace terms with "match" it doesnt work
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### Author:  [@Tetrapack](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Tetrapack)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2017, 12:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-x-y-or-z-using-match/98217/2 "2017-08-24T12:01:13Z")
Hi,
You can look at the description of [match query](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html)
It corresponds to a full text query, then if you want multiple values, juste put in one match query all values you want separated with a space.
Adding the "operator" field to "and" or "or" inside the match query will decide if all terms in the query should be found or not
ex:
```
GET filebeat-*/log/_search
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match": {
"clientId": "tomer john billy"
}
}
]
}
}
}
```
This one will retrieve document with clientId is equal to :
- "tomer"
- "john"
- "billy"
this one will retrieve documents where clientId is equal to :
- "tomer john billy"
this one will retrieve documents where clientId is equal to :
- "tomer john" or "john tomer"
- "tomer billy" or "billy tomer"
- "john billy" or "billy john"
=\> The "minimum\_should\_match" field to 2 impose that corresponding field contains at least 2 values.
Finally, you can add a custom analyser if you wants which will split the phrase differently before searching documents.
Hope it's clear ^^'
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### Author:  [@tomer](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomer)
#### Post date: [August 28, 2017, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-x-y-or-z-using-match/98217/3 "2017-08-28T09:20:23Z")
> [@Tetrapack](#):
>
> Adding the “operator” field to “and” or “or” inside the ma
Thank you very much!
this was very clear
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 25, 2017, 9:20am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-for-x-y-or-z-using-match/98217/4 "2017-09-25T09:20:41Z")
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