# Search using Special Character

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-using-special-character/3509>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [November 3, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-using-special-character/3509 "2010-11-03T15:11:57Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![srrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@srrin](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/srrin)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-using-special-character/3509/1 "2010-11-03T15:11:57Z")

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Hi ,  
I have a search request which passes lucene query string as search criteria as like  
pagecount:{2 TO 4] which is produced from lucenes constantsearchrangequery. Since I m having "{" is in the search criteria I am unable to suceed. My full search request using JSON is as follows

curl -XGET '[http://localhost/db25/\_search](http://localhost/db25/_search)' -d '{ "query" : { "query\_string" : { "default\_field" : "", "query" : "+(pagecount:{2 TO 4])","default\_operator" : "OR","analyzer" : "Standard","allow\_leading\_wildcard" : true,"lowercase\_expanded\_terms" : true,"enable\_position\_increments" : true,"fuzzy\_prefix\_length" : 0,"fuzzy\_min\_sim" : 0.5,"phrase\_slop" : 0,"boost" : 1.0 } }, "from" : 0, "size" : 0, "facets" : {"tag\_reviewstatus" : { "terms" : { "field" :"\_reviewstatus","size" : 10 } } , "global" : false }, "explain" : false }'

Once I pass this request in CURL I am getting ParseException as SEARCHPHASEEXECUTIONEXCEPTION.  
Kindly help. Thanks in advance

-SRR

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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, 4:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-using-special-character/3509/2 "2017-07-06T04:17:13Z")

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