.. _es-guide-reference-index-modules-analysis-pathhierarchy-tokenizer:

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Pathhierarchy Tokenizer
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The **path_hierarchy** tokenizer takes something like this:


<pre>
/something/something/else


And produces tokens:


<pre>
/something
/something/something
/something/something/else


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 Setting            Description                                                              
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**delimiter**      The character delimiter to use, defaults to **/**.                        
**replacement**    An optional replacement character to use. Defaults to the **delimiter**.  
**buffer_size**    The buffer size to use, defaults to **1024**.                             
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