# Search with colon or Dash
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-with-colon-or-dash/90713
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [June 24, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-with-colon-or-dash/90713 "2017-06-24T13:48:22Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@byjg](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/byjg)
#### Post date: [June 24, 2017, 1:48pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-with-colon-or-dash/90713/1 "2017-06-24T13:48:23Z")
Hi,
I am using Kibana for store my logs but I when search fields with colon ( : ) or dash ( - ) I have unexpected results.
Follow some examples:
- Search for the full text **WORKS:**
objectId: "this.is.full.text:category:some-title:"
```
{"query": {
"match": {
"objectId": {
"query": "this.is.full.text:category:some-title:",
"type": "phrase"
}}}}
```
- Search inside the text without use the dash or colon **WORKS** also
objectId: "this.is.full\*"
```
{"query": {
"match": {
"objectId": {
"query": "this.is.full*",
"type": "phrase"
}}}}
```
- But if I included a colon inside the search this **NOT WORKS**
objectId: "\* category:some \*" (note: there is no space after or before the \*)
```
{"query": {
"match": {
"objectId": {
"query": "*category:some*",
"type": "phrase"
}}}}
```
I tried escape the colon with bask-slash ( : ) but without success.
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### Author:  [@Joe\_Fleming](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joe_Fleming)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-with-colon-or-dash/90713/2 "2017-06-26T20:25:10Z")
I believe that it's actually a problem with the match query. From the [match query docs](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-match-query.html):
> The match family of queries does not go through a "query parsing" process. It does not support field name prefixes, wildcard characters, or other "advanced" features.
You need to change that to a `query_string` query to use wildcards correctly.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 24, 2017, 8:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/search-with-colon-or-dash/90713/3 "2017-07-24T20:25:49Z")
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