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\").

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Answer 1

You should use a commodin chars to make your query, something like this:

$ curl -XGET http://localhost:9200/myapp/index -d '{
    "dots": "first.second*"
}'

more examples about the syntax at: http://lucene.apache.org/core/old_versioned_docs/versions/2_9_1/queryparsersyntax.html