# Search for a number

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-a-number/8352>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [July 9, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-a-number/8352 "2012-07-09T05:33:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Alex\_Tabaksmann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4af34b/32.png) [@Alex\_Tabaksmann](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Alex_Tabaksmann)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2012, 5:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-a-number/8352/1 "2012-07-09T05:33:33Z")

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Hi,

my indexed field is a json field: [2,3,6,10]  
I wand to search for number occurences in that field - if i do

```
    $keywordsQuery = new \Elastica_Query_Text();
    $keywordsQuery->setFieldQuery('eventtypes', "2");
    $events = $finder->find ($keywordsQuery);

```

It will only find Entitys with [2] but not [2,3,5]

How can i fix that?

Thanks!

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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 6, 2017, 3:21am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-a-number/8352/2 "2017-07-06T03:21:04Z")

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