# Wildcard search is not working in Elasticsearch

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-search-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/89649>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 16, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-search-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/89649 "2017-06-16T04:53:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![nmane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a9adbd/32.png) [@nmane](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nmane)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 4:53am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-search-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/89649/1 "2017-06-16T04:53:58Z")

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I am using Elasticsearch queries for searching. My wildcard query is

> GET /\_search  
> {  
> "query": {  
> "wildcard" : { "class" : "com\*fc.domain.commonservice.core.CoreServiceHelperSingleton" }  
> }  
> }

The class is `com.ofss.fc.domain.commonservice.core.CoreServiceHelperSingleton`. But the query returns

> {  
> "took": 65,  
> "timed\_out": false,  
> "\_shards": {  
> "total": 104,  
> "successful": 104,  
> "failed": 0  
> },  
> "hits": {  
> "total": 0,  
> "max\_score": null,  
> "hits":   
> }  
> }

Why is the wildcard query not working?

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2017, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-search-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/89649/2 "2017-06-16T06:41:00Z")

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Probably because of the analyzer you are using.

But not that using wildcard queries is not recommended.

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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 14, 2017, 6:41am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-search-is-not-working-in-elasticsearch/89649/3 "2017-07-14T06:41:02Z")

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