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 include::tokenfilters/normalization-tokenfilter.asciidoc[]
 
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+[[analysis-delimited-payload-tokenfilter]]
+=== Delimited Payload Token Filter
+
+Named `delimited_payload_filter`. Splits tokens into tokens and payload whenever a delimiter character is found.
+
+Example: "the|1 quick|2 fox|3" is split per default int to tokens `fox`, `quick` and `the` with payloads `1`, `2` and `3` respectively.
+
+
+
+Parameters:
+
+`delimiter`:: 
+    Character used for splitting the tokens. Default is `|`. 
+
+`encoding`:: 
+    The type of the payload. `int` for integer, `float` for float and `identity` for characters. Default is `float`.
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