I guess i'll open a bug ticket on github then...see if there are any 
thoughts over there.

On Saturday, May 24, 2014 8:50:49 PM UTC-5, JA e wrote:
>
> I frequently need to utilize regular expressions and am having some 
> difficulties.
>
> For example say I have a full_url of 
> *http://www.mycompany.com/pic2af45362bcd322cd/image1.jpg 
> <http://www.mycompany.com/pic2af45362bcd322cd/image1.jpg>*, where the 16 
> char hex can change and the image number can change. 
>
> Logstash parses just the uri portion so i'm searching on the string of 
> '/pic2af45362bcd322cd/image1.jpg'
>
> If i was using pcre i would say something like... *| 
> "^\/pic[a-f0-9]{16}\/image[0-9]\.jpg$"*
>
> In reading the documentation on ES/lucene regex (queries are always 
> anchored / not full pcre) i think i should be able to search like so: 
> *uri:/\/pic[a-f0-9]{16}\/image[0-9]\.jpg/*
>
> This does not seem to work. If I search for *uri:/pic[a-f0-9]{16}/* it 
> works, but i have a less exact query. I also tried this query in sense and 
> receive the same problem, it's almost as if it does not recognize the 
> forward slashes in regex.
>
> How do you get ES to recognize the / in regex queries if its a character 
> that doesnt have an escape? I see that you can escape it in standard dsl 
> queries but apparently not in regex queries?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jason
>

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