# Sorting results on type string

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-results-on-type-string/3938>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [February 17, 2011, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-results-on-type-string/3938 "2011-02-17T11:59:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![nabizan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e99b99/32.png) [@nabizan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nabizan)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2011, 11:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-results-on-type-string/3938/1 "2011-02-17T11:59:08Z")

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hi i want to be able to sort on field type string  
my mapping:  
"Nick" : {"type": "string", "analyzer": "not\_analyzed"}

request:  
"sort" : {"Nick": "desc"}

but the results i get isnt properly sorted

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**Author:** ![kimchy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/kimchy/32/44952_2.png) [@kimchy](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/kimchy)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2011, 1:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-results-on-type-string/3938/2 "2011-02-20T01:11:57Z")

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This should work properly, gist a curl recreation and we can look at it ([Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/help)).  
On Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 1:59 PM, nabizan wrote:

> hi i want to be able to sort on field type string  
> my mapping:  
> "Nick" : {"type": "string", "analyzer": "not\_analyzed"}
> 
> request:  
> "sort" : {"Nick": "desc"}
> 
> ## but the results i get isnt properly sorted
> 
> View this message in context: [http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/sorting-results-on-type-string-tp2518275p2518275.html](http://elasticsearch-users.115913.n3.nabble.com/sorting-results-on-type-string-tp2518275p2518275.html)  
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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, 4:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/sorting-results-on-type-string/3938/3 "2017-07-06T04:11:49Z")

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