# Segment - REGEXP Exact Match **URL:** \ **Category:** Product Support\ **Tags:** mautic-3\ **Created:** [January 31, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/segment-regexp-exact-match/22548 "2022-01-31T17:00:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pwned555](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/pwned555/32/3848_2.png) [@pwned555](https://forum.mautic.org/u/pwned555)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/segment-regexp-exact-match/22548/1 "2022-01-31T17:00:08Z")
**Your software** My Mautic version is: v3.2.2 My PHP version is: 7.4.13 My Database type and version is: MariaDB 10.5.8 **Your problem** My problem is: Is there a way to do exact matches in Mautic for REGEXP? The issue I have is that we want to add a filter to match only users who have a field with these values AU, CA, GB However if we add a regexp for (AU|CA|GB) it will also match a user with AUS for example. There are other parameters that combine with that field, so I know I could do a bunch of OR statements for each match but that makes the segment way more complicated and hard to maintain. I’ve found this for MySQL/MariaDB that works in the SQL directly but Mautic doesn’t allow it ([[:\<:]]AU[[:\>:]]|[[:\<:]]CA[[:\>:]]|[[:\<:]]GB[[:\>:]]) I can customize it on our side if we need to, but I was wondering if there was already any built in way to do this or not. ---
**Author:** ![pwned555](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/pwned555/32/3848_2.png) [@pwned555](https://forum.mautic.org/u/pwned555)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/segment-regexp-exact-match/22548/2 "2022-01-31T17:04:33Z")
As is always the case I found the answer immediately after posting this A regexp value like this works for me if anyone else is currious (^AU$|^CA$|^GB$)