# Wildcard query no results, but wildcard in query\_string works OK
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-query-no-results-but-wildcard-in-query-string-works-ok/152471
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 15, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-query-no-results-but-wildcard-in-query-string-works-ok/152471 "2018-10-15T10:33:41Z")
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### Author:  [@tomekit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomekit)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-query-no-results-but-wildcard-in-query-string-works-ok/152471/1 "2018-10-15T10:33:41Z")
I am running ES 5.3.3.
I've got a document field `name`, value: `L-tryp-something` which I am trying to find.
This query gives no result:
`"wildcard" : { "name" : { "wildcard" : "L-tryp*", "boost" : 2.0 } }`
However this works fine:
```
"query_string" : {
"default_field": "name",
"query": "L-Tryp*",
"boost" : 2.0
}
```
Any idea why is that?
Here is full curl command set to create index, index a document, then execute 2 searches:
```
curl -XPUT "http://localhost:9200/test" -d '{"mappings": {
"substance": {
"properties": {
"name": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer":"lowercase_keyword_analyzer",
"fields": {
"nGram": {
"type": "text",
"analyzer": "lowercase_ngram_keyword_analyzer"
}
}
}
}
}
}, "settings": {
"index": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"ngram": {
"type": "nGram",
"min_gram": "1",
"max_gram": "10"
}
},
"analyzer": {
"lowercase_ngram_keyword_analyzer": {
"filter": [
"lowercase",
"ngram"
],
"tokenizer": "keyword"
},
"lowercase_keyword_analyzer": {
"filter": [
"lowercase"
],
"tokenizer": "keyword"
}
}
}
}
}}'
curl -XPUT "localhost:9200/test/substance/2320" -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"name" : "L-tryp-something"
}
'
curl -XPOST "localhost:9200/test/_search" -d'
{
"query": {
"wildcard" : { "name" : { "wildcard" : "L-tryp*", "boost" : 2.0 } }
}
}
'
curl -XPOST "localhost:9200/test/_search" -d'
{
"query": {
"query_string" : {
"default_field": "name",
"query": "L-Tryp*",
"boost" : 2.0
}
}
}'
```
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### Author:  [@tomekit](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/tomekit)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2018, 11:11am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-query-no-results-but-wildcard-in-query-string-works-ok/152471/2 "2018-10-15T11:11:53Z")
Right the answer is that `wildcard` query doesn't use the search analyzer and as a result doesn't run the `lowercase` filter on the search term. Since the index on name is lowercased there are no results starting from capital `F` as in the above example.
The `query_string` by default does lowercase the search string, so in fact it has its own analyzer which works just fine with the the wildcard.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [November 12, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-query-no-results-but-wildcard-in-query-string-works-ok/152471/3 "2018-11-12T11:22:59Z")
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