# Searching with multiple tokens in the query
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-multiple-tokens-in-the-query/10706
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [February 12, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-multiple-tokens-in-the-query/10706 "2013-02-12T03:07:46Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Dave\_Lee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Dave_Lee)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2013, 3:07am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-multiple-tokens-in-the-query/10706/1 "2013-02-12T03:07:46Z")
I would like to be able to search for multiple tokens at once. Currently it
is only matching the entire query. However, I would like to search each
query individually as well so if my query string is "quick brown fox" I
will get documents matching the whole string but also document that may
have only one or two of the keywords, regardless of order.
What is the best way to accomplish this?
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### Author:  [@Clinton\_Gormley](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Clinton_Gormley)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2013, 11:42am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-multiple-tokens-in-the-query/10706/2 "2013-02-12T11:42:13Z")
On Mon, 2013-02-11 at 19:07 -0800, Dave Lee wrote:
> I would like to be able to search for multiple tokens at once.
> Currently it is only matching the entire query. However, I would like
> to search each query individually as well so if my query string is
> "quick brown fox" I will get documents matching the whole string but
> also document that may have only one or two of the keywords,
> regardless of order.
Use a "match" query.
clint
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-multiple-tokens-in-the-query/10706/3 "2017-07-06T02:51:55Z")