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Tokenizers

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Tokenizers

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Tokenizers are used to break a string down into a stream of terms or tokens. A simple tokenizer might split the string up into terms wherever it encounters whitespace or punctuation.

Elasticsearch has a number of built in tokenizers which can be used to build custom analyzers.

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