How to match on prefix in Elasticsearch

Question

let\'s say that in my elasticsearch index I have a field called \"dots\" which will contain a string of punctuation separated words (e.g. \"first.second.third\").

I

Answer 1

Have a look at prefix queries.

$ curl -XGET 'http://localhost:9200/index/type/_search' -d '{
    "query" : {
        "prefix" : { "dots" : "first.second" }
    }
}'