# Multichar delimiter in path\_hierarchy tokenizer

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multichar-delimiter-in-path-hierarchy-tokenizer/16204>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 6, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multichar-delimiter-in-path-hierarchy-tokenizer/16204 "2014-03-06T17:33:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![damienclaveau](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aca169/32.png) [@damienclaveau](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/damienclaveau)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2014, 5:33pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multichar-delimiter-in-path-hierarchy-tokenizer/16204/1 "2014-03-06T17:33:29Z")

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Hi,  
At the moment, the delimiter in a path\_hierarchy tokenizer must be a single  
char.

For example, something like this is not allowed :  
"tokenizer": {  
"arrow\_path\_tokenizer": {  
"type": "path\_hierarchy",  
"delimiter": "--\>"  
}  
}

Please, can some somebody give advice on which other tokenizer I could  
configure  
to obtain the same behaviour as the path\_hierarchy tokenizer but with my  
"--\>" delimiter ?

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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 6, 2017, 1:45am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/multichar-delimiter-in-path-hierarchy-tokenizer/16204/2 "2017-07-06T01:45:16Z")

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