# Searching for %

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for/249254>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 20, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for/249254 "2020-09-20T12:21:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Ozberk\_Akbas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ozberk_akbas/32/75887_2.png) [@Ozberk\_Akbas](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Ozberk_Akbas)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for/249254/1 "2020-09-20T12:21:09Z")

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Hello people;

For detecting sql injections on our decoy server, we need to search a parameter like '1'='1 but this entry from the url will be encoded as ACSII url characters. So we need to search % with a query.

How can I search the % character. No matter what I do I can't include this character "%"

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**Author:** ![lukeelmers](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/lukeelmers/32/35230_2.png) [@lukeelmers](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lukeelmers)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for/249254/2 "2020-09-24T18:26:01Z")

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@Ozberk_Akbas Do you have a sample document you could provide which you are trying to match with your query? It might make it easier to help if there was a concrete example to play around with.

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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:** [October 22, 2020, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-for/249254/3 "2020-10-22T18:26:08Z")

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