# \# sign getting ignored
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sign-getting-ignored/43892
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 9, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sign-getting-ignored/43892 "2016-03-09T12:33:16Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@elastic-fan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elastic-fan)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 12:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sign-getting-ignored/43892/1 "2016-03-09T12:33:16Z")
i have a field which has the value that contains string with # and then a number i.e searc#1 , searc#2 and so on. But when i display this in kibana i am getting only the number i.e 1 , 2 and so on. the hash and the names are getting ignored, is there a work around for this
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### Author:  [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)
#### Post date: [March 9, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sign-getting-ignored/43892/2 "2016-03-09T19:25:58Z")
Your field is probably mapped as an [analyzed string](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/mapping-index.html). You'll want to either change it to `not_analyzed`, or create a [multi-field](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/multi-fields.html) so that you get both an analyzed and not\_analyzed copy.
If you're using logstash for ingestion, your string fields should already be set up as multifields, in which case you should try aggregating on the field called `[fieldName].raw` with fieldName being the base name of your field.
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### Author:  [@elastic-fan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/elastic-fan)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2016, 1:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sign-getting-ignored/43892/3 "2016-03-10T13:01:01Z")
how to change analyzed to not\_analyzed 😊
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### Author:  [@Bargs](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Bargs)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2016, 2:47pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sign-getting-ignored/43892/4 "2016-03-10T14:47:17Z")
Unfortunately you can't generally just update the mapping for a field. You'll have to create a new index with the proper mappings for that field:
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-create-index.html#mappings](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/indices-create-index.html#mappings)
After that you'll need to re-index your data into this new index.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 1:59pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sign-getting-ignored/43892/5 "2017-07-06T13:59:34Z")