# Remove escaped characters before inserting data

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-escaped-characters-before-inserting-data/54610>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 4, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-escaped-characters-before-inserting-data/54610 "2016-07-04T06:00:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![shantanuo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/shantanuo/32/10141_2.png) [@shantanuo](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shantanuo)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-escaped-characters-before-inserting-data/54610/1 "2016-07-04T06:00:08Z")

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Here is an example....

```
DELETE /test_index

POST /test_index/myid/
{"_uid":1234,"id":1,"name":"someName","newProperty":"some \" and some text\"Value","status":0}

POST /test_index/_search

```

As you can see in the results, there is a double quote. Is there anyway to remove all escaped characters before inserting the data?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-escaped-characters-before-inserting-data/54610/2 "2016-07-04T06:16:09Z")

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You need to change your data before it get indexed.

You can do that in your application, in Logstash or from 5.0 with ingest node.

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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, 10:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/remove-escaped-characters-before-inserting-data/54610/3 "2017-07-05T22:38:40Z")

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