# Search in kibana Discovery ignores some characters

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-discovery-ignores-some-characters/172911>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [March 19, 2019, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-discovery-ignores-some-characters/172911 "2019-03-19T08:09:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ssinternalit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@ssinternalit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ssinternalit)\
**Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 8:09am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-discovery-ignores-some-characters/172911/1 "2019-03-19T08:09:51Z")

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Hi there  
I've observed that in kibana 6.5.4 and also 6.6.0.  
If I do a search for:

message:"35=R"

The = is ignored and also what follows, in this case =R.

This same behaviour is shown with other "special" characters.

Does anyone know how to overcome that?

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 3:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-discovery-ignores-some-characters/172911/2 "2019-03-20T15:38:31Z")

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Is `message` a text or a keyword field? What analyzer is it using?

What you're probably going to want to do instead is use the keyword version of the field:

`message.keyword: "35=R"`

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**Author:** ![ssinternalit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/49beb7/32.png) [@ssinternalit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ssinternalit)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 5:10pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-discovery-ignores-some-characters/172911/3 "2019-04-01T17:10:51Z")

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Sorry for the late answer.  
It does not work.  
Also I cannot use wildcards like:

Message:"\*456\*"

I'm using the default analyzer.

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**Author:** ![lukas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukas/32/6812_2.png) [@lukas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukas)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-discovery-ignores-some-characters/172911/4 "2019-04-01T17:52:03Z")

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Have you tried querying `Message.keyword` instead of just `Message`? `Message` is, I'm assuming the analyzed field, so querying it for special characters won't work, because they are removed during analysis.

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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:** [April 29, 2019, 5:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-in-kibana-discovery-ignores-some-characters/172911/5 "2019-04-29T17:52:06Z")

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