# Searching special characters

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/searching-special-characters/15260>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [May 5, 2020, 2:02pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/searching-special-characters/15260 "2020-05-05T14:02:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![jan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jan/32/11_2.png) [@jan](https://community.graylog.org/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 10:03am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/searching-special-characters/15260/7 "2020-05-19T10:03:26Z")

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he @Kirt

the main question is - do you search in the _message_ field or do you search in a different field?

The _message_ field is analyzed field that means that the content is split into terms based on the active tokenizer.

Overview:  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/analysis-tokenizers.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/analysis-tokenizers.html)

Default Tokenizer  
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/analysis-standard-tokenizer.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.8/analysis-standard-tokenizer.html)

As this is based of words (see links above) your dots are not searchable. Because they are no words.

Should the content be in a non analyzed field where the content is simple seen as a string, your search would be possible.

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