[[analysis-whitespace-tokenizer]]
=== Whitespace tokenizer
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<titleabbrev>Whitespace</titleabbrev>
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The `whitespace` tokenizer breaks text into terms whenever it encounters a
whitespace character.

[discrete]
=== Example output

[source,console]
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POST _analyze
{
  "tokenizer": "whitespace",
  "text": "The 2 QUICK Brown-Foxes jumped over the lazy dog's bone."
}
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[source,console-result]
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{
  "tokens": [
    {
      "token": "The",
      "start_offset": 0,
      "end_offset": 3,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 0
    },
    {
      "token": "2",
      "start_offset": 4,
      "end_offset": 5,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "token": "QUICK",
      "start_offset": 6,
      "end_offset": 11,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "token": "Brown-Foxes",
      "start_offset": 12,
      "end_offset": 23,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "token": "jumped",
      "start_offset": 24,
      "end_offset": 30,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 4
    },
    {
      "token": "over",
      "start_offset": 31,
      "end_offset": 35,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 5
    },
    {
      "token": "the",
      "start_offset": 36,
      "end_offset": 39,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 6
    },
    {
      "token": "lazy",
      "start_offset": 40,
      "end_offset": 44,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 7
    },
    {
      "token": "dog's",
      "start_offset": 45,
      "end_offset": 50,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 8
    },
    {
      "token": "bone.",
      "start_offset": 51,
      "end_offset": 56,
      "type": "word",
      "position": 9
    }
  ]
}
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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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[discrete]
=== Configuration

The `whitespace` tokenizer accepts the following parameters:

[horizontal]
`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`.
