# Searching for exact string in big fields (Lucene Limitation)

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-exact-string-in-big-fields-lucene-limitation/117288>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [January 27, 2018, 8:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-exact-string-in-big-fields-lucene-limitation/117288 "2018-01-27T08:05:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [January 27, 2018, 8:39am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for-exact-string-in-big-fields-lucene-limitation/117288/2 "2018-01-27T08:39:45Z")

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Doing

```
like "%search_text%"

```

Is not exact string search.

Could you provide a full recreation script as described in [About the Elasticsearch category](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-the-elasticsearch-category/21). It will help to better understand what you are want to do. Please, try to keep the example as simple as possible.

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