# Censor specific text patterns

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/censor-specific-text-patterns/26042
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 5, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/censor-specific-text-patterns/26042 "2015-03-05T20:48:59Z")
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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 9, 2016, 11:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/censor-specific-text-patterns/26042/10 "2016-11-09T23:05:48Z")

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This now exists, see

> [@Support for wildcards in word censoring](https://meta.discourse.org/t/support-for-wildcards-in-word-censoring/26866/7):
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> Hey look what we added this week: This is a new setting that works alongside censored words, but is a regular expression. The above example filters 7 digits of a phone number. If you like it, call me at 555-1234! The value entered in the setting is checked to see if it matches too greedily like (.)\*. Also, if cooking a post ever fails because the javascript engine timed out, then the censored pattern setting will be cleared on the assumption that it’s an evil regex like (a|aa)+.

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