# Wrapping query text into "\<\>" results into match all **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [December 2, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrapping-query-text-into-results-into-match-all/21037 "2014-12-02T16:02:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anthony\_Andrushchenk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@Anthony\_Andrushchenk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anthony_Andrushchenk)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrapping-query-text-into-results-into-match-all/21037/1 "2014-12-02T16:02:25Z")
Hi everybody, I have encountered very strange behaviour of the search when the search query is wrapped into "\<\>" characters, for example query text: "products" matches no documents, while "" matches all the documents from the index. I won't post the index creation definitions (i.e. mappings and structure) yet, but rather ask you to try this on your working installations or point me to the document on special characters I am missing. As a hint, the \_explain returns following message: "description": "ConstantScore(model\_en:[\* TO products\>}), product of:", where "model\_en" is the matched field. Thank you in advance for your advices, Tony -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![nik9000](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/nik9000/32/44947_2.png) [@nik9000](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nik9000)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 4:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrapping-query-text-into-results-into-match-all/21037/2 "2014-12-02T16:05:56Z")
Its a range query on all terms less than products\>. You'll want to use match instead of query\_string and you won't see weird stuff like that. On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Anthony Andrushchenko [amrmaker@gmail.com](mailto:amrmaker@gmail.com) wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have encountered very strange behaviour of the search when the search > query is wrapped into "\<\>" characters, > > for example query text: "products" matches no documents, while > "" matches all the documents from the index. > > I won't post the index creation definitions (i.e. mappings and structure) > yet, but rather ask you to try this on your working installations or point > me to the document on special characters I am missing. > > As a hint, the \_explain returns following message: "description": > "ConstantScore(model\_en:[\* TO products\>}), product of:", where "model\_en" > is the matched field. > > Thank you in advance for your advices, > > Tony > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "elasticsearch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). > To view this discussion on the web visit > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com) > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > . > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd34HzFKjpuF67hkLy2vp57YwZgo3csF%2B30z7BUgpwgXzg%40mail.gmail.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/CAPmjWd34HzFKjpuF67hkLy2vp57YwZgo3csF%2B30z7BUgpwgXzg%40mail.gmail.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**Author:** ![Anthony\_Andrushchenk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/65b543/32.png) [@Anthony\_Andrushchenk](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Anthony_Andrushchenk)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 4:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrapping-query-text-into-results-into-match-all/21037/3 "2014-12-02T16:26:30Z")
Hi Nikolas, thank you very much for your fast and accurate response! Best, Tony вторник, 2 декабря 2014 г., 18:06:49 UTC+2 пользователь Nikolas Everett написал: > Its a range query on all terms less than products\>. You'll want to use > match instead of query\_string and you won't see weird stuff like that. > > On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Anthony Andrushchenko \<[amrm...@gmail.com](mailto:amrm...@gmail.com) > \\> wrote: > > > Hi everybody, > > > > I have encountered very strange behaviour of the search when the search > > query is wrapped into "\<\>" characters, > > > > for example query text: "products" matches no documents, while > > "" matches all the documents from the index. > > > > I won't post the index creation definitions (i.e. mappings and structure) > > yet, but rather ask you to try this on your working installations or point > > me to the document on special characters I am missing. > > > > As a hint, the \_explain returns following message: "description": > > "ConstantScore(model\_en:[\* TO products\>}), product of:", where "model\_en" > > is the matched field. > > > > Thank you in advance for your advices, > > > > Tony > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "elasticsearch" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearc...@googlegroups.com) \. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com) > > [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com?utm\_medium=email&utm\_source=footer](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/2e888d66-b2a1-498a-99ed-d265fa95e221%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer) > > . > > For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elasticsearch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com](mailto:elasticsearch+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com). To view this discussion on the web visit [https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a5c222ff-094c-461a-abf1-5c988e640a5a%40googlegroups.com](https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elasticsearch/a5c222ff-094c-461a-abf1-5c988e640a5a%40googlegroups.com). For more options, visit [https://groups.google.com/d/optout](https://groups.google.com/d/optout). ---
**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, 12:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/wrapping-query-text-into-results-into-match-all/21037/4 "2017-07-06T00:46:34Z")