# Re: Fulltext search by number **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [July 9, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-fulltext-search-by-number/8351 "2012-07-09T04:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![richie\_yan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@richie\_yan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/richie_yan)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 4:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-fulltext-search-by-number/8351/1 "2012-07-09T04:51:16Z")
try to use '[http://localhost:9200/index/type/\_search?q=phonenormal:"80297894512"&pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/index/type/_search?q=phonenormal:%2280297894512%22&pretty=true)' maybe it works! On Thursday, July 5, 2012 4:37:27 PM UTC+8, Ashot Galstyan wrote: > Good day. At our project we have the following issue. > > There's a string field "phonenormal" that contains phone numbers. We've > got > a record with data like this "80297894512 7272". > > So when we try to make a fulltext search like > curl -XGET > ' > [http://localhost:9200/index/type/\_search?q=phonenormal:80297894512&pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/index/type/_search?q=phonenormal:80297894512&pretty=true)' > > we got nothing. > > If we shorten the phone number to 8029789451 and search > curl -XGET > ' > [http://localhost:9200/index/type/\_search?q=phonenormal:8029789451&pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/index/type/_search?q=phonenormal:8029789451&pretty=true)' > > the record is returned correctly. > > The other values for phonenormal like 29789, 0297894512, 7272 give correct > result too. > > Could you help to solve the problem? > > -- > View this message in context: > [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Fulltext-search-by-number-tp4020113.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/Fulltext-search-by-number-tp4020113.html) > Sent from the Elasticsearch Users mailing list archive at [Nabble.com](http://Nabble.com). ---
**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, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/re-fulltext-search-by-number/8351/2 "2017-07-06T03:21:05Z")