# Need help in selecting right analyzer for exact string match with offsets **URL:** \ **Category:** Elasticsearch\ **Created:** [June 14, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-in-selecting-right-analyzer-for-exact-string-match-with-offsets/89422 "2017-06-14T16:42:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nanosoft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/aeb1de/32.png) [@nanosoft](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/nanosoft)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-in-selecting-right-analyzer-for-exact-string-match-with-offsets/89422/1 "2017-06-14T16:42:14Z")
I am new to elasticsearch. In my case I have html files all containing 2 exactly matching strings. My job is to find those 2 strings and capture the text between them. So if I can get offset of first string and offset of second string then it can be captured. Now when I index these html files, \_AFAIK _search api doesn't give offsets but analyze api does_. Please note **getting offsets is the goal**. I am a java developer so I am using java to write elasticsearch client and try to make calls to \_analyze to fetch json with offsets. I don't know elastic search api much as well. And I am not sure which analyzer to use and which combination of filters and tokenizers would be best in this case. I know this is a trivial question but for me now its a bit confusing. Thanks in advance. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 4:42pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/need-help-in-selecting-right-analyzer-for-exact-string-match-with-offsets/89422/2 "2017-07-12T16:42:15Z")
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