# Searching with & without spaces **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [March 1, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076 "2018-03-01T13:31:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![iluvcode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iluvcode/32/24929_2.png) [@iluvcode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iluvcode)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:31pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076/1 "2018-03-01T13:31:15Z")
I am using Elasticsearch 5.3 and would like to get the same results if the words have space or without space. example : Some of the documents have " **SM 58**" (with space) and some have " **SM58**" (without space). So when I search for "SM58"/"SM 58", I would like to get both the records. Is it possible to do this with Elasticsearch? ---
**Author:** ![lars.vanderspek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9a140/32.png) [@lars.vanderspek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lars.vanderspek)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076/2 "2018-03-01T13:36:41Z")
You could type "SM 58" OR "SM58" in the searchbar. The same query can be applied to a filter if you like. ---
**Author:** ![iluvcode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iluvcode/32/24929_2.png) [@iluvcode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iluvcode)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076/3 "2018-03-01T13:38:48Z")
@lars.vanderspek, what filter are you referring to? ---
**Author:** ![lars.vanderspek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9a140/32.png) [@lars.vanderspek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lars.vanderspek)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076/4 "2018-03-01T13:42:21Z")
I made the assumption you are using Kibana. If you are, you can use a filter to query data in a certain field. If you look for your text in the \_id field, for example, it would look like this: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/5/6/56878133d6e43e5413004000c6d7bed643794172.png) ---
**Author:** ![iluvcode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iluvcode/32/24929_2.png) [@iluvcode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iluvcode)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076/5 "2018-03-01T13:46:15Z")
I am not using Kibana. This is for a public facing website. There are multiple scenarios where we have words with/without spaces. Is there any analyzer that i can use? ---
**Author:** ![lars.vanderspek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e9a140/32.png) [@lars.vanderspek](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lars.vanderspek)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 1:56pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076/6 "2018-03-01T13:56:43Z")
How are you accessing your data now? Have you formulated any other queries through your current method? ---
**Author:** ![iluvcode](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/iluvcode/32/24929_2.png) [@iluvcode](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/iluvcode)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076/7 "2018-03-01T14:13:04Z")
This is how i created mapping. Shortdescription & Metawords fields have words with or without spaces but the context is same. So when customer searched for SM 58 or SM58, I would like to get all the documents regardless of whitespace. { "settings": { "analysis": { "analyzer": { "pluralwordsAnalyzer": { "type": "snowball", "language": "English" }, "htmlanalyzer": { "type": "custom", "char\_filter": ["html\_strip"], "tokenizer": "standard" }, "trigram": { "type": "custom", "filter": ["standard", "shingle"], "tokenizer": "standard" }, "reverse": { "type": "custom", "filter": ["standard", "reverse"], "tokenizer": "standard" } }, "filter": { "shingle": { "type": "shingle", "min\_shingle\_size": 2, "max\_shingle\_size": 20 } }, "normalizer": { "lowercasenormalizer": { "type": "custom", "filter": ["lowercase", "asciifolding"] } } } }, "mappings": { "smartsiteitemsearchentry": { "properties": { "itemId": { "type": "integer" }, "shortDescription": { "type": "text", "fields": { "raw": { "type": "keyword", "normalizer": "lowercasenormalizer" }, "snowball": { "type": "text", "analyzer": "pluralwordsAnalyzer", "search\_analyzer": "pluralwordsAnalyzer" } }, "index": true }, "itemSnapLongDesc": { "fields": { "keyword": { "ignore\_above": 256, "type": "keyword" } }, "type": "text" }, "longDescription": { "type": "text", "fields": { "raw": { "type": "keyword", "normalizer": "lowercasenormalizer" }, "snowball": { "type": "text", "analyzer": "htmlanalyzer", "search\_analyzer": "pluralwordsAnalyzer" } }, "index": true }, "itemType": { "type": "integer" }, "searchDesc": { "fields": { "keyword": { "ignore\_above": 256, "type": "keyword" } }, "type": "text" }, "keyWords": { "type": "text", "fields": { "raw": { "type": "keyword", "normalizer": "lowercasenormalizer" }, "snowball": { "type": "text", "analyzer": "pluralwordsAnalyzer", "search\_analyzer": "pluralwordsAnalyzer" } }, "index": true }, "specification": { "type": "text", "fields": { "raw": { "type": "keyword", "normalizer": "lowercasenormalizer" }, "snowball": { "type": "text", "analyzer": "htmlanalyzer", "search\_analyzer": "pluralwordsAnalyzer" } }, "index": true }, ``` "itemGridSpecifications": { "properties": { "itemId": { "type": "integer" }, "gridItemId": { "type": "integer" }, "valueId": { "type": "integer" }, "shortDescriptionSpecification": { "fields": { "keyword": { "ignore_above": 256, "type": "keyword" } }, "type": "text" }, "description": { "fields": { "keyword": { "ignore_above": 256, "type": "keyword" } }, "type": "text" }, "displayInSearchFilter": { "type": "boolean" }, "value": { "fields": { "keyword": { "ignore_above": 256, "type": "keyword" } }, "type": "text" }, "seq": { "type": "integer" } }, "type": "object" }, "itemAttributes": { "properties": { "itemId": { "type": "integer" }, "shortDescriptionAttribute": { "fields": { "keyword": { "ignore_above": 256, "type": "keyword" } }, "type": "text" }, "description": { "fields": { "keyword": { "ignore_above": 256, "type": "keyword" } }, "type": "text" }, "attributeValueId": { "type": "integer" }, "value": { "fields": { "keyword": { "ignore_above": 256, "type": "keyword" } }, "type": "text" }, "displayInSearch": { "type": "boolean" }, "hasRange": { "type": "boolean" }, "sequence": { "type": "integer" } }, "type": "object" }, "id": { "type": "long" }, "hasMoreRecord": { "type": "keyword" }, "contentTypeId": { "type": "keyword" }, "token": { "type": "keyword" }, "itemAttributes.shortDescriptionAttribute": { "type": "text", "fields": { "raw": { "type": "keyword", "normalizer": "lowercasenormalizer" }, "snowball": { "type": "text", "analyzer": "htmlanalyzer", "search_analyzer": "pluralwordsAnalyzer" } }, "index": true }, "itemGridSpecifications.shortDescriptionSpecification": { "type": "text", "fields": { "raw": { "type": "keyword", "normalizer": "lowercasenormalizer" }, "snowball": { "type": "text", "analyzer": "htmlanalyzer", "search_analyzer": "pluralwordsAnalyzer" } }, "index": true } } } } } ``` ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/searching-with-without-spaces/122076/8 "2018-03-29T14:13:21Z")
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