# Disable regex in Lucene search **URL:** \ **Category:** Kibana\ **Created:** [August 11, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-regex-in-lucene-search/311907 "2022-08-11T08:24:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Leventi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leventi/32/109360_2.png) [@Leventi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Leventi)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2022, 8:24am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-regex-in-lucene-search/311907/1 "2022-08-11T08:24:39Z")
Hi How I could disable regex in Lucene search? My problem is when I search something like that 32/22-ЕКТ I cant't find anything. It's working just when I write in quotes like this "32/22-ЕКТ" or 32/22-ЕКТ It's because slashes are used as beginning/end or a regex query. ---
**Author:** ![Marius\_Dragomir](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/marius_dragomir/32/42087_2.png) [@Marius\_Dragomir](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Marius_Dragomir)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2022, 8:50pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-regex-in-lucene-search/311907/2 "2022-08-12T20:50:40Z")
There is no way to disable it. You can switch from Lucene to KQL, this way regex won't be automatically enabled. ---
**Author:** ![Leventi](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/leventi/32/109360_2.png) [@Leventi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Leventi)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2022, 9:03am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-regex-in-lucene-search/311907/3 "2022-08-17T09:03:31Z")
It's not exactly what I need but thx. 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2022, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/disable-regex-in-lucene-search/311907/4 "2022-09-14T09:04:07Z")
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