# Searching with spaces

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-spaces/8944>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [September 6, 2012, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-spaces/8944 "2012-09-06T08:26:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Renu\_y](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Renu\_y](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Renu_y)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2012, 8:26am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-spaces/8944/1 "2012-09-06T08:26:03Z")

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**Author:** ![Renu\_y](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Renu\_y](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Renu_y)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-spaces/8944/2 "2012-09-10T03:53:05Z")

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had to do a gsub(/\s+/, +) in the query to get a better result .  
Is there a better option?

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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, 3:13am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-spaces/8944/3 "2017-07-06T03:13:30Z")

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