# Reserved characters on multimatch query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reserved-characters-on-multimatch-query/20228>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 14, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reserved-characters-on-multimatch-query/20228 "2014-10-14T06:37:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![ananth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@ananth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ananth)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2014, 6:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reserved-characters-on-multimatch-query/20228/1 "2014-10-14T06:37:19Z")

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Hi,

How to search reserve/special characters on multimatch query ?

First of all , here the analyzer details for your reference.

index :

analysis :

```
  analyzer :

    default_index :

        type : custom

        tokenizer : whitespace

        filter : [word_delimiter, snowball, lowercase]

    default_search :

        type : custom

        tokenizer : whitespace

        filter : [word_delimiter, snowball, lowercase]

  filter :

      word_delimiter :

        type : word_delimiter

        preserve_original : true

        split_on_numerics : true

        stem_english_possessive : false

```

The following query returns no resluts , when using the multimatch query.

"query" : {

```
"bool" : {

  "must" : {

    "multi_match" : {

      "query" : "\\(\\)",

      "fields" : ["field1", "field2", "field3", "field4"],

      "operator" : "AND"

    }

  }

}

```

Where when i search through specific field it works perfectly.

"query" : {

```
"bool" : {

  "must" : {

    "query_string" : {

      "query" : "message:\\(\\)",

      "default_operator" : "and"

    }

  }

}

```

}

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**Author:** ![ananth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dfb087/32.png) [@ananth](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ananth)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reserved-characters-on-multimatch-query/20228/2 "2014-10-16T07:13:30Z")

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can anyone has any idea on this ?

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Anantha Govindarajan \<  
[ananthagovindarajan@gmail.com](mailto:ananthagovindarajan@gmail.com)\> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How to search reserve/special characters on multimatch query ?
> 
> First of all , here the analyzer details for your reference.
> 
> index :
> 
> analysis :
> 
> ```
> analyzer :
> 
> default_index :
> 
> type : custom
> 
> tokenizer : whitespace
> 
> filter : [word_delimiter, snowball, lowercase]
> 
> default_search :
> 
> type : custom
> 
> tokenizer : whitespace
> 
> filter : [word_delimiter, snowball, lowercase]
> 
> filter :
> 
> word_delimiter :
> 
> type : word_delimiter
> 
> preserve_original : true
> 
> split_on_numerics : true
> 
> stem_english_possessive : false
> 
> ```
> 
> The following query returns no resluts , when using the multimatch query.
> 
> "query" : {
> 
> ```
> "bool" : {
> 
> "must" : {
> 
> "multi_match" : {
> 
> "query" : "\\(\\)",
> 
> "fields" : ["field1", "field2", "field3", "field4"],
> 
> "operator" : "AND"
> 
> }
> 
> }
> 
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> Where when i search through specific field it works perfectly.
> 
> "query" : {
> 
> ```
> "bool" : {
> 
> "must" : {
> 
> "query_string" : {
> 
> "query" : "message:\\(\\)",
> 
> "default_operator" : "and"
> 
> }
> 
> }
> 
> }
> 
> ```
> 
> }
> 
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:55am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/reserved-characters-on-multimatch-query/20228/3 "2017-07-06T00:55:50Z")

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