ElasticSearch - Searching with hyphens

Question

Elastic Search 1.6

I want to index text that contains hyphens, for example U-12, U-17, WU-12, t-shirt... and to be able to use a \"Simple Query String\" query to sea

Answer 1

If anyone is still looking for a simple workaround to this issue, replace hyphen with underscore _ when indexing data.

For eg, O-000022334 should indexed as O_000022334.

When searching, replace underscore back to hyphen again when displaying results. This way you can search for "O-000022334" and it will find a correct match.