# Wildcard with exact phrase search using query\_string

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-with-exact-phrase-search-using-query-string/102631>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [October 3, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-with-exact-phrase-search-using-query-string/102631 "2017-10-03T23:12:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wildcard-with-exact-phrase-search-using-query-string/102631/5 "2017-10-05T16:04:17Z")

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that's very helpful, many thanks Jimczi. is there away also run exact phrase search including wildcard using "query\_string"  
for example:

```
{  
               "query_string":{  
                  "query": "\"imperial college lond?n\"",
                  "fields": ["afdoc.affil"]
               }
            }
```

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