# Will PCRE regular expressions be supported in the future?

**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-pcre-regular-expressions-be-supported-in-the-future/317322
**Category:** Elasticsearch
**Created:** [October 24, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-pcre-regular-expressions-be-supported-in-the-future/317322 "2022-10-24T14:06:50Z")
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### Author: ![shengwei.xu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@shengwei.xu](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/shengwei.xu)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2022, 2:06pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-pcre-regular-expressions-be-supported-in-the-future/317322/1 "2022-10-24T14:06:50Z")

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Will PCRE regular expressions be supported in the future? I ran into a scenario that non-tech users only use PCRE regular expressions that most languages use, it's time-consuming for non-tech users to learn how to use elastic regexp syntax.

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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: [November 21, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/will-pcre-regular-expressions-be-supported-in-the-future/317322/2 "2022-11-21T14:07:15Z")

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