# Regular expression in ElasticSearch

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-in-elasticsearch/157502
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [November 20, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-in-elasticsearch/157502 "2018-11-20T08:57:38Z")
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### Author: ![surajdalvi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85f322/32.png) [@surajdalvi](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/surajdalvi)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 8:57am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-in-elasticsearch/157502/1 "2018-11-20T08:57:38Z")

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Hi,

Can we use MongoDB regular expression query in the elastic search directly?

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### Author: ![dadoonet](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/dadoonet/32/137187_2.png) [@dadoonet](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/dadoonet)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-in-elasticsearch/157502/2 "2018-11-20T09:43:15Z")

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No. Only elasticsearch query dsl and sql are supported.  
Plus some client specific languages like java client...

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### Author: ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 18, 2018, 9:43am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-in-elasticsearch/157502/3 "2018-12-18T09:43:24Z")

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