# Toad and Regular Expressions

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**Category:** Toad for Oracle & DevOps Toolkit\
**Created:** [May 18, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-and-regular-expressions/61678 "2026-05-18T11:08:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![russell.cannon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/russell.cannon/32/12042_2.png) [@russell.cannon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/russell.cannon)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 11:08am UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-and-regular-expressions/61678/1 "2026-05-18T11:08:08Z")

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Now, I fancy myself a Guru when it comes to Regular Expressions, but I am a bit puzzled by Toad's support of them.

In the Filter field of the LHS of Schema Browser, what Regex standard is being used?

Also, what are other places that Toad allows the use of Regular Expressions?

Cheers,  
Russ

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**Author:** ![JohnDorlon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/johndorlon/32/9997_2.png) [@JohnDorlon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/JohnDorlon)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-and-regular-expressions/61678/2 "2026-05-18T12:24:31Z")

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Hi Russ,

Toad uses the PCRE flavor of regex, described here [Regular Expressions Reference Table of Contents](https://www.regular-expressions.info/refflavors.html)

The Editor's find dialog also supports it. Also the object palette. Also SQL Recall. Probably a few other places that I can't think of at the moment.

-John

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**Author:** ![russell.cannon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/russell.cannon/32/12042_2.png) [@russell.cannon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/russell.cannon)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 12:26pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-and-regular-expressions/61678/3 "2026-05-18T12:26:34Z")

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Thank you so much, my friend.

Cheers,  
Russ

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**Author:** ![russell.cannon](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/quest/user_avatar/forums.toadworld.com/russell.cannon/32/12042_2.png) [@russell.cannon](https://forums.toadworld.com/u/russell.cannon)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2026, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.toadworld.com/t/toad-and-regular-expressions/61678/4 "2026-05-18T12:29:32Z")

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And I love RegexBuddy. That is where I send anyone who wants to learn Regex.