# Use multiple wildcards DSL Query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-multiple-wildcards-dsl-query/128840>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 20, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-multiple-wildcards-dsl-query/128840 "2018-04-20T09:17:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![lutundula\_jeanchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/919ad9/32.png) [@lutundula\_jeanchris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lutundula_jeanchris)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 9:17am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-multiple-wildcards-dsl-query/128840/1 "2018-04-20T09:17:18Z")

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Hello everyone , I just started using "DSL query" on my ELK platform and i want to make a DSL request that can use wildcard to perform matching search . my request will find all the mail\_domain (term) that end with "[mail.com](http://mail.com)" , "[test.com](http://test.com)" , "[email.com](http://email.com)" basically a list of domains , and dsplay them .

Here's my resquest

{  
"query": {  
"wildcard": {  
"mail\_domain.keyword": ["\*[mail.com](http://mail.com)" , "\*[email.com](http://email.com)" , "\*[test.com](http://test.com)"]  
}  
}  
}

it seems like wilcard can't take an array of a term values . Do you have any idea how can i do it ?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![ppisljar](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/ppisljar/32/11588_2.png) [@ppisljar](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ppisljar)\
**Post date:** [April 20, 2018, 1:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-multiple-wildcards-dsl-query/128840/2 "2018-04-20T13:19:45Z")

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This looks like a really bad idea. Elasticsearch will need to go thru every document to find those matches. To do this right you will need to index your data appropriately. Maybe add a domain field (with `mail.com`, `email.com`, ... values), or even a simple boolean field `isMyMatchedEmailDomain`

you could also use [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/analysis-reverse-tokenfilter.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/analysis-reverse-tokenfilter.html) to optimize your index for prefix wildcard searches

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**Author:** ![lutundula\_jeanchris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/919ad9/32.png) [@lutundula\_jeanchris](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/lutundula_jeanchris)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-multiple-wildcards-dsl-query/128840/3 "2018-04-23T12:52:39Z")

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Thanks man

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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:** [May 21, 2018, 12:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-multiple-wildcards-dsl-query/128840/4 "2018-05-21T12:52:54Z")

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