Regular expression won't work when next to character that's been escaped

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I'm trying to create a saved search and I have a field called "pipe_name" and I need to find every time it equals [back slash][six lower case characters]. An example is \qudpcg.

this query finds \qudpcg:

{
  "query": {
    "regexp": {
      "pipe_name": {
        "value": "\\q[a-z]{5}"
      }
    }
  }
}

This Query doesn't return anything

{
  "query": {
    "regexp": {
      "pipe_name": {
        "value": "\\[a-z]{6}"
      }
    }
  }
}`

I can't get any regular expression or wildcard to work after the "\\", any thoughts?

2

What kind of query are you doing? Have you tried asking in the Elasticsearch forums?

3

thank for the suggestion Lukas I'll move to there. To answer your question I was using a DSL query in Kibana's discovery pane.

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