# Query with wildcard

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-with-wildcard/42518>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 23, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-with-wildcard/42518 "2016-02-23T17:01:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Jeremias\_Wolff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a698b9/32.png) [@Jeremias\_Wolff](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jeremias_Wolff)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2016, 5:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-with-wildcard/42518/1 "2016-02-23T17:01:46Z")

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can someone please explain, why this

```
curl -XGET "http://localhost:9200/_search?pretty&size=10" -d '{
"fields":["to"],
     "query" : {
         "query_string" : {
         	"query": "to:\"foo@example.o?g\"",
         	"analyze_wildcard":true
         }
     }
 }'

```

won't match? for sure, there IS an entry with [foo@example.org](mailto:foo@example.org)

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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, 11:14pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/query-with-wildcard/42518/2 "2017-07-05T23:14:10Z")

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