# Regular expressions not working

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expressions-not-working/176043>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [April 9, 2019, 2:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expressions-not-working/176043 "2019-04-09T14:17:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aaron\_Caldwell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/aaron_caldwell/32/45755_2.png) [@Aaron\_Caldwell](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Aaron_Caldwell)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regular-expressions-not-working/176043/2 "2019-04-09T20:26:08Z")

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Hello Lars,

It sounds like you may not have indexed on the artist field. The response [here](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/regex-search-in-kibana/97436) should help!

Regards,  
Aaron

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