# Kibana and old beast regexp searches

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-old-beast-regexp-searches/200864>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [September 24, 2019, 12:36pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-old-beast-regexp-searches/200864 "2019-09-24T12:36:38Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 25, 2019, 9:27am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-and-old-beast-regexp-searches/200864/4 "2019-09-25T09:27:48Z")

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Ah, maybe you didn't turn of KQL (same problem as in this topic: [Kibana Regex Searching Problems](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-regex-searching-problems/154108/2))

Could you try clicking "KQL" in the top right of the search bar, set it to "Lucene" and execute the search again?

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