# Parsing string in query

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-string-in-query/45192>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 23, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-string-in-query/45192 "2016-03-23T08:37:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![robertl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a87d85/32.png) [@robertl](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/robertl)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 8:37am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-string-in-query/45192/1 "2016-03-23T08:37:18Z")

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I am asking for help for a query in ElasticSearch. I have entries in field "name" like:

```
/dir1/sub1/subsub1/file1
/dir1/sub1/subsub2/file2
/dir1/sub2/file3

```

Here I want to list objects in a specific directory. For example if I search by /dir1 I want to be returned:

```
sub1
sub2

```

or entire "name" string but subdirectories shall not be repeated. I can use grouping but a problem is a parsing of string itself. Can anyone help me with this? Thank you.

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**Author:** ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2016, 9:54am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-string-in-query/45192/2 "2016-03-23T09:54:55Z")

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I would look at [PathTokenizer](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/2.2/analysis-pathhierarchy-tokenizer.html).

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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 5, 2017, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/parsing-string-in-query/45192/3 "2017-07-05T23:05:56Z")

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Closed on July 5, 2017, 11:05pm UTC