Elasticsearch - Not require an exact match

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Currently I have an item in my elasticsearch index with the title:
testing123

When I search for it, I can only get it returned if I search testing123
exactly. However, I want to be able to search testing and have it
returned too.

How can I have it so the search must start with that term but also not be
an exact match?

Any help would be appreciated.

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You should use this then:

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:26 PM, James mail@employ.com wrote:

Currently I have an item in my elasticsearch index with the title:
testing123

When I search for it, I can only get it returned if I search testing123
exactly. However, I want to be able to search testing and have it
returned too.

How can I have it so the search must start with that term but also not be
an exact match?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Thank you for the reply. I thought it was much about making my search query
not require an exact match, rather than splitting down the words I am
searching against?

On 19 March 2015 at 12:30, Itamar Syn-Hershko itamar@code972.com wrote:

You should use this then:
Word delimiter token filter | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:26 PM, James mail@employ.com wrote:

Currently I have an item in my elasticsearch index with the title:
testing123

When I search for it, I can only get it returned if I search testing123
exactly. However, I want to be able to search testing and have it
returned too.

How can I have it so the search must start with that term but also not be
an exact match?

Any help would be appreciated.

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This boils down to Lucene fundamentals, in particular what search tokens
are created and then searched. I've explained this in depth here:

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On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:33 PM, James mail@employ.com wrote:

Thank you for the reply. I thought it was much about making my search
query not require an exact match, rather than splitting down the words I am
searching against?

On 19 March 2015 at 12:30, Itamar Syn-Hershko itamar@code972.com wrote:

You should use this then:
Word delimiter token filter | Elasticsearch Guide [8.11] | Elastic

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Freelance Developer & Consultant
Lucene.NET committer and PMC member

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:26 PM, James mail@employ.com wrote:

Currently I have an item in my elasticsearch index with the title:
testing123

When I search for it, I can only get it returned if I search
testing123 exactly. However, I want to be able to search testing
and have it returned too.

How can I have it so the search must start with that term but also not
be an exact match?

Any help would be appreciated.

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