# Search for text in a string **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [May 19, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-text-in-a-string/273457 "2021-05-19T23:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cyberguy2891](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@cyberguy2891](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberguy2891)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2021, 11:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-text-in-a-string/273457/1 "2021-05-19T23:38:33Z")
Hi, Im fairly new to elastic search and Ive been stuck on these for 8 hrs now. I have a log field like this: `Retry Exhausted Error Get segment: GET request failed after 1 attempts to record the segment (final status code 404, status code map with code/count map[])` How do I extract just 404? Do I use match query? wildcard? regexp? an analyzer? ---
**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-text-in-a-string/273457/2 "2021-05-20T01:54:06Z")
Welcome to our community! 😃 A wildcard should work, but it's pretty inefficient. ---
**Author:** ![cyberguy2891](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@cyberguy2891](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/cyberguy2891)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-text-in-a-string/273457/3 "2021-05-20T13:06:15Z")
Thank you! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2021, 1:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-for-text-in-a-string/273457/4 "2021-06-17T13:06:47Z")
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