# TOAD 12 - Regular expression error on Object Search when searching for a term containing a (

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**Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\
**Created:** [July 10, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-12-regular-expression-error-on-object-search-when-searching-for-a-term-containing-a/25707 "2013-07-10T23:24:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![megan.macfarlane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e480ec/32.png) [@megan.macfarlane](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/megan.macfarlane)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2013, 11:24pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-12-regular-expression-error-on-object-search-when-searching-for-a-term-containing-a/25707/1 "2013-07-10T23:24:53Z")

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Hi,

I regularly use object search to look for a particular function within all the objects we have defined over several schemas. After upgrading to TOAD 12, searching for

**myfunc(** , using **Occurs anywhere**

gives me the following error:

ORA-12725: unmatched parentheses in regular expression

Unfortunately I really wish to search for the open bracket as there is many occurances of myfunc as a term in comments, object name etc. I really just want to find the occurance of the function, hence the **(**.

Using the option \*_LIKE- escape \*_ also generates an error if I include the open bracket.

ORA-01424: missing or illegal character following the escape character

Is there any option new to Toad 12 (or old but now defaulted in Toad 12) that I need to switch off?

Thanks