# Simple equality filter
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-equality-filter/4617
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 14, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-equality-filter/4617 "2011-06-14T16:38:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Eric\_Mill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Mill)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2011, 4:38pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-equality-filter/4617/1 "2011-06-14T16:38:34Z")
I feel like I must be missing something, but how do I filter on an exact
string match? In other words, I want either the entire field to match or not
at all.
The "text" filter of type "phrase" will match even when the query string is
only a subset of the field, and the "term" filter won't work when the field
is an identifier with hyphens in it.
Relatedly, is there a way to do an exact match on number and boolean fields?
-- Eric
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### Author:  [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2011, 4:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-equality-filter/4617/2 "2011-06-14T16:52:12Z")
You always do exact matches on number and boolean fields (using either term query or term filter). For text, you can make the field as `index` set to `not_analyzed` in order for it not to be analyzed and treated as a single token.
On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Eric Mill wrote:
> I feel like I must be missing something, but how do I filter on an exact string match? In other words, I want either the entire field to match or not at all.
>
> The "text" filter of type "phrase" will match even when the query string is only a subset of the field, and the "term" filter won't work when the field is an identifier with hyphens in it.
>
> Relatedly, is there a way to do an exact match on number and boolean fields?
>
> -- Eric
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### Author:  [@Eric\_Mill](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Eric_Mill)
#### Post date: [June 14, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-equality-filter/4617/3 "2011-06-14T17:53:58Z")
Thanks, that was what I was looking for!
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Shay Banon
[shay.banon@elasticsearch.com](mailto:shay.banon@elasticsearch.com)wrote:
> You always do exact matches on number and boolean fields (using either
> term query or term filter). For text, you can make the field as `index` set
> to `not_analyzed` in order for it not to be analyzed and treated as a single
> token.
>
> On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 7:38 PM, Eric Mill wrote:
>
> I feel like I must be missing something, but how do I filter on an exact
> string match? In other words, I want either the entire field to match or not
> at all.
>
> The "text" filter of type "phrase" will match even when the query string is
> only a subset of the field, and the "term" filter won't work when the field
> is an identifier with hyphens in it.
>
> Relatedly, is there a way to do an exact match on number and boolean
> fields?
>
> -- Eric
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2017, 4:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/simple-equality-filter/4617/4 "2017-07-06T04:03:38Z")