elasticsearch/docs/reference/analysis/analyzers/whitespace-analyzer.asciidoc

[[analysis-whitespace-analyzer]]
=== Whitespace Analyzer

The `whitespace` analyzer breaks text into terms whenever it encounters a
whitespace character.

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=== Example output

[source,console]
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POST _analyze
{
  "analyzer": "whitespace",
  "text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone."
}
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[source,console-result]
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{
  "tokens": [
    {
      "token": "The",
      "start_offset": 0,
      "end_offset": 3,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 0
    },
    {
      "token": "2",
      "start_offset": 4,
      "end_offset": 5,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "token": "QUICK",
      "start_offset": 6,
      "end_offset": 11,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "token": "Brown-Foxes",
      "start_offset": 12,
      "end_offset": 23,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "token": "jumped",
      "start_offset": 24,
      "end_offset": 30,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 4
    },
    {
      "token": "over",
      "start_offset": 31,
      "end_offset": 35,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 5
    },
    {
      "token": "the",
      "start_offset": 36,
      "end_offset": 39,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 6
    },
    {
      "token": "lazy",
      "start_offset": 40,
      "end_offset": 44,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 7
    },
    {
      "token": "dog's",
      "start_offset": 45,
      "end_offset": 50,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 8
    },
    {
      "token": "bone.",
      "start_offset": 51,
      "end_offset": 56,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 9
    }
  ]
}
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The above sentence would produce the following terms:

[source,text]
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[ The, 2, QUICK, Brown-Foxes, jumped, over, the, lazy, dog's, bone. ]
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[float]
=== Configuration

The `whitespace` analyzer is not configurable.

[float]
=== Definition

It consists of:

Tokenizer::
* <<analysis-whitespace-tokenizer,Whitespace Tokenizer>>

If you need to customize the `whitespace` analyzer then you need to
recreate it as a `custom` analyzer and modify it, usually by adding
token filters. This would recreate the built-in `whitespace` analyzer
and you can use it as a starting point for further customization:

[source,console]
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PUT /whitespace_example
{
  "settings": {
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "rebuilt_whitespace": {
          "tokenizer": "whitespace",
          "filter": [         <1>
          ]
        }
      }
    }
  }
}
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// TEST[s/\n$/\nstartyaml\n  - compare_analyzers: {index: whitespace_example, first: whitespace, second: rebuilt_whitespace}\nendyaml\n/]

<1> You'd add any token filters here.