# Regular expression query

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-query/307252
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [June 15, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-query/307252 "2022-06-15T10:33:54Z")
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### Author: ![Krishna\_Sai\_Nag\_G](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/krishna_sai_nag_g/32/80467_2.png) [@Krishna\_Sai\_Nag\_G](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Krishna_Sai_Nag_G)
#### Post date: [June 15, 2022, 10:33am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-query/307252/1 "2022-06-15T10:33:54Z")

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I have a text like this "10-year-old", how can i search this using regular expression query.  
How can we search over special characters in Elasticsearch.

I am using the below query, it is not returning the output.

GET index\_name/\_search?scroll=1m  
{  
"\_source": ["file.filename","file.url"],  
"query": {  
"regexp": {  
"content": "10-year-old"  
}  
},  
"highlight": {  
"fields": {  
"content": {}  
}  
}  
}

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### Author: ![RabBit\_BR](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/rabbit_br/32/82261_2.png) [@RabBit\_BR](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/RabBit_BR)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-query/307252/2 "2022-06-17T22:19:02Z")

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Hi @Krishna_Sai_Nag_G .

Provide more information, such as documents, to help understand your issue.

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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: [July 15, 2022, 10:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expression-query/307252/3 "2022-07-15T22:19:05Z")

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