[[analysis-pattern-analyzer]]
=== Pattern Analyzer

The `pattern` analyzer uses a regular expression to split the text into terms.
The regular expression should match the *token separators*  not the tokens
themselves. The regular expression defaults to `\W+` (or all non-word characters).

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=== Definition

It consists of:

Tokenizer::
* <<analysis-pattern-tokenizer,Pattern Tokenizer>>

Token Filters::
*  <<analysis-lowercase-tokenfilter,Lower Case Token Filter>>
*  <<analysis-stop-tokenfilter,Stop Token Filter>> (disabled by default)

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=== Example output

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POST _analyze
{
  "analyzer": "pattern",
  "text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone."
}
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// CONSOLE

The above sentence would produce the following terms:

[source,text]
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[ the, 2, quick, brown, foxes, jumped, over, the, lazy, dog, s, bone ]
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=== Configuration

The `pattern` analyzer accepts the following parameters:

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`pattern`::

    A http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html[Java regular expression], defaults to `\W+`.

`flags`::

    Java regular expression http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html#field.summary[flags].
    lags should be pipe-separated, eg `"CASE_INSENSITIVE|COMMENTS"`.

`lowercase`::

    Should terms be lowercased or not. Defaults to `true`.

`max_token_length`::

    The maximum token length. If a token is seen that exceeds this length then
    it is split at `max_token_length` intervals. Defaults to `255`.

`stopwords`::

    A pre-defined stop words list like `_english_` or an array  containing a
    list of stop words.  Defaults to `_none_`.

`stopwords_path`::

    The path to a file containing stop words.

See the <<analysis-stop-tokenfilter,Stop Token Filter>> for more information
about stop word configuration.


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=== Example configuration

In this example, we configure the `pattern` analyzer to split email addresses
on non-word characters or on underscores (`\W|_`), and to lower-case the result:

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PUT my_index
{
  "settings": {
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "my_email_analyzer": {
          "type":      "pattern",
          "pattern":   "\\W|_", <1>
          "lowercase": true
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

GET _cluster/health?wait_for_status=yellow

POST my_index/_analyze
{
  "analyzer": "my_email_analyzer",
  "text": "John_Smith@foo-bar.com"
}
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// CONSOLE

<1> The backslashes in the pattern need to be escaped when specifying the
    pattern as a JSON string.

The above example produces the following terms:

[source,text]
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[ john, smith, foo, bar, com ]
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==== CamelCase tokenizer

The following more complicated example splits CamelCase text into tokens:

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PUT my_index
{
  "settings": {
    "analysis": {
      "analyzer": {
        "camel": {
          "type": "pattern",
          "pattern": "([^\\p{L}\\d]+)|(?<=\\D)(?=\\d)|(?<=\\d)(?=\\D)|(?<=[\\p{L}&&[^\\p{Lu}]])(?=\\p{Lu})|(?<=\\p{Lu})(?=\\p{Lu}[\\p{L}&&[^\\p{Lu}]])"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

GET _cluster/health?wait_for_status=yellow

GET my_index/_analyze
{
  "analyzer": "camel",
  "text": "MooseX::FTPClass2_beta"
}
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// CONSOLE

The above example produces the following terms:

[source,text]
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[ moose, x, ftp, class, 2, beta ]
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The regex above is easier to understand as:

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  ([^\p{L}\d]+)                 # swallow non letters and numbers,
| (?<=\D)(?=\d)                 # or non-number followed by number,
| (?<=\d)(?=\D)                 # or number followed by non-number,
| (?<=[ \p{L} && [^\p{Lu}]])    # or lower case
  (?=\p{Lu})                    #   followed by upper case,
| (?<=\p{Lu})                   # or upper case
  (?=\p{Lu}                     #   followed by upper case
    [\p{L}&&[^\p{Lu}]]          #   then lower case
  )
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