Hi, I am trying to find the way to search in our ES cluster for a substring contained within a doc field's string (where this substring may contain space, for example, as well as may contains a colon, hyphen, etc.). I think it is best to demonstrate with an example so I put below a scenario that d…

It looks like you are using default mappings, so try searching the ‘email.subject.keyword’ field which mapped as keyword and not analysed. Be aware that searching using regexp can be slow and may not scale well.

Searching ES regex with space/colon/hypen etc

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Searching ES regex with space/colon/hypen etc

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