common-script-uses.md

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Painless script tutorials [common-script-uses]

You can write a script to do almost anything, and sometimes, that’s the challenge. It’s difficult to know what’s possible with scripts, so these tutorials address common use cases where scripts are particularly helpful.

Painless scripting becomes powerful when applied to real-world scenarios. These tutorials walk you through essential patterns and operations, providing working examples you can modify for your specific use cases.

• Accessing document fields and special variables
• Accessing fields in a document
• Converting data types
• Dissecting data
• Extracting fields
• Grokking grok
• Scripts, caching, and search speed
• Updating documents
• Using Painless regular expressions
• Working with dates