# Dot not used as delimiter

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-not-used-as-delimiter/12468>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [June 18, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-not-used-as-delimiter/12468 "2013-06-18T19:32:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![shadyabhi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/edb3f5/32.png) [@shadyabhi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shadyabhi)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2013, 8:01pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/dot-not-used-as-delimiter/12468/2 "2013-06-18T20:01:53Z")

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You're probably using Standard analyzer which recognises hostnames.

$ curl -X GET "[http://localhost:9200/\_analyze?analyzer=standard&pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/_analyze?analyzer=standard&pretty=true)"  
-d  
"computer.rails"

{  
"tokens" : [ {  
"token" : "computer.rails",  
"start\_offset" : 0,  
"end\_offset" : 14,  
"type" : "",  
"position" : 1  
} ]  
}

The giving of space works because,

$ curl -X GET "[http://localhost:9200/\_analyze?analyzer=standard&pretty=true](http://localhost:9200/_analyze?analyzer=standard&pretty=true)"  
-d "computer. rails"  
{  
"tokens" : [ {  
"token" : "computer",  
"start\_offset" : 0,  
"end\_offset" : 8,  
"type" : "",  
"position" : 1  
}, {  
"token" : "rails",  
"start\_offset" : 10,  
"end\_offset" : 15,  
"type" : "",  
"position" : 2  
} ]  
}

Depending on your needs, you might want to use a different analyzer like  
simple

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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:02 AM, oto iashvili  
[optimum.dulopin@laposte.net](mailto:optimum.dulopin@laposte.net)wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I just find out that if texte is something like 'computer.rails' , search  
> on "computer" will not find this text. If I change to 'computer.  
> rails' (with space after dot), then it is working  
> I saw her some info, but couldnt understand :
> 
> [Elasticsearch Platform — Find real-time answers at scale | Elastic](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/reference/index-modules/analysis/word-delimiter-tokenfilter/)
> 
> can anyone help me ?
> 
> thanks
> 
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