# How to use regex patterns for entity recognition?

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**Created:** [April 15, 2020, 3:49pm UTC](https://forum.rasa.com/t/how-to-use-regex-patterns-for-entity-recognition/27540 "2020-04-15T15:49:09Z")\
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> [@\_sanjay\_r](#):
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> ( Also, not sure if I’m right on this, but try shifting the `## regex:code` after the `## intent:course_code`.)

it appears `regex` could be before `intent` according to the documentation here [NLU Training Data](https://rasa.com/docs/rasa/nlu-training-data/#regular-expressions-for-rule-based-entity-extraction)

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