# Search for parts of a string field

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-parts-of-a-string-field/219670>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 17, 2020, 6:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-parts-of-a-string-field/219670 "2020-02-17T18:48:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![abdelhedi\_yassine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/53a042/32.png) [@abdelhedi\_yassine](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/abdelhedi_yassine)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-parts-of-a-string-field/219670/7 "2020-02-18T13:42:16Z")

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You will need to change the mapping of the field to not be analyzed, otherwise the slashes will not be indexed.  
you can check these 2 posts on how to use slashes in filters:

[https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-slash-to-search-in-discovery/92340](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-use-slash-to-search-in-discovery/92340)

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44981143/how-to-use-slash-in-kibana-discovery>

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