# Search for % character

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-character/99784>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 8, 2017, 4:38am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-character/99784 "2017-09-08T04:38:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![spalger](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/spalger/32/14092_2.png) [@spalger](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/spalger)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 6:00am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-character/99784/2 "2017-09-09T06:00:38Z")

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It's possible you need to escape the %, based on how you've indexed your data. I assume the issue is caused by how your data is indexed in elasticsearch. Checkout [1] for similar question

1: [Indexing and searching on special characters?](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/indexing-and-searching-on-special-characters/9312)

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