# Use regex to search the text containing dash or minus sign
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-regex-to-search-the-text-containing-dash-or-minus-sign/211519
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [December 11, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-regex-to-search-the-text-containing-dash-or-minus-sign/211519 "2019-12-11T19:52:33Z")
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### Author:  [@Mihir\_Kothari](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Mihir_Kothari)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2019, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-regex-to-search-the-text-containing-dash-or-minus-sign/211519/1 "2019-12-11T19:52:33Z")
Hi,
We have Elasticsearch 6.5. I am using it to search a index using regex and it is working for most of the case.
```
{
"query": {
"bool": {
"must": [
{
"match": { "field1:field2" : "Complete" }
},
{
"bool": {
"should": [
{
"regexp": { "field1.field3" : ".*mysource_.+20190102" }
}
]
}
}
]
}
},
"size":10000
}
```
Using the above query is running fine for most of the cases. For e.g. _mysource\_121\_AB\_PQ\_20190102_ (and similar) are fetched correctly.
However, I have a text stored as _mysource\_101\_XY-FG\_20190102_, which is not fetched using the above regex.
If I do not use regex, simple match fetches the data correctly. Only this regex is not working on it. I believe it is due to the hyphen or dash or minus (-) sign.
Can someone help in searching such data using the regex?
Please note the index is not maintained by us, so I cannot run admin commands on index.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [January 8, 2020, 7:52pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/use-regex-to-search-the-text-containing-dash-or-minus-sign/211519/2 "2020-01-08T19:52:37Z")
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