Regex Phrase - Paradedb

Regex phrase matches a specific sequence of regex queries. Think of it like a conjunction of regex queries, with positions and ordering of tokens enforced.

For example, the regex phrase query for ru.* shoes will match running shoes, but will not match shoes running.

<CodeGroup> ```sql SQL SELECT description, rating, category FROM mock_items WHERE description @@@ pdb.regex_phrase(ARRAY['ru.*', 'shoes']); ```

python

from paradedb import ParadeDB, RegexPhrase

MockItem.objects.filter(
    description=ParadeDB(RegexPhrase('ru.*', 'shoes'))
).values('description', 'rating', 'category')

python

from sqlalchemy import select
from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
from paradedb.sqlalchemy import search

stmt = (
    select(MockItem.description, MockItem.rating, MockItem.category)
    .where(search.regex_phrase(MockItem.description, ["ru.*", "shoes"]))
)

with Session(engine) as session:
    session.execute(stmt).all()

ruby

MockItem.search(:description)
        .regex_phrase("ru.*", "shoes")
        .select(:description, :rating, :category)

</CodeGroup> <div className="mt-8" /> <ParamField body="phrases" required> An `ARRAY` of expressions that form the search phrase. These expressions must appear in the specified order within the document for a match to occur, although some flexibility is allowed based on the `slop` parameter. Please see [regex](/documentation/query-builder/term/regex) for allowed regex constructs. </ParamField> <ParamField body="slop" default={0}> A slop of `0` requires the terms to appear exactly as they are in the phrase and adjacent to each other. Higher slop values allow for transpositions and distance between terms. </ParamField> <ParamField body="max_expansions" default={16384}> Limits total number of terms that the regex phrase query can expand to. If this number is exceeded, an error will be returned. </ParamField>