# Increase 255 character limit in analyzer

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-255-character-limit-in-analyzer/308543
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 30, 2022, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-255-character-limit-in-analyzer/308543 "2022-06-30T08:51:59Z")
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### Author: ![ansamHox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@ansamHox](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ansamHox)
#### Post date: [June 30, 2022, 8:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-255-character-limit-in-analyzer/308543/1 "2022-06-30T08:51:59Z")

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I want to use a whitespace tokenizer, but I have very long "tokens", and if it is longer than 255 characters, it will split it into 2 or more tokens.

```auto
GET _analyze
{
  "tokenizer": "whitespace",
  "filter": [
    {
      "type": "length",
      "min": 0,
      "max": 50
    }
  ],
  "text": "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmn123456789abcd"
}

```

and the result is:

```auto
{
  "tokens" : [
    {
      "token" : "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuwyzabcdefghijklmn1",
      "start_offset" : 0,
      "end_offset" : 255,
      "type" : "word",
      "position" : 0
    },
    {
      "token" : "23456789abcd",
      "start_offset" : 255,
      "end_offset" : 267,
      "type" : "word",
      "position" : 1
    }
  ]
}

```

How can I increase number of characters to be more than 255, tnx?

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 28, 2022, 8:52am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/increase-255-character-limit-in-analyzer/308543/2 "2022-07-28T08:52:49Z")

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