Effective e-mail or URL link search inside text

Let's search in the content field of the documents that we have for the e-mail address :

{
  "query" : {
    "match" : {
      "content" : "malhotra@gmail.com"
      }
    }
}

Incidentally, Document 1 and Document 2 matched our query rather than just Document 1.

Let's see why this happened and how:

  • By default, the standard analyzer is taken as the default analyzer
  • The standard analyzer breaks into malhotra and gmail.com
  • The standard analyzer also breaks the e-mail ID into buygroceries and gmail.com
  • This means that when we search for the e-mail ID , either malhotra or gmail.com needs to match for the document to be qualified as a result

Hence, ...

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