topic Re: Regex help for a newby please in Getting Data In

Regex help for a newby please

markturner14 — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:41:27 GMT

Hi All, looking for some assistance on what a regex would look like when every new line starts with an open bracket e.g. (

I am a complete novice with regex so asking how this would be achieved. I kinda understand the error - just not how to resolve.

my error is (from btool.log)

btool-support - Bad regex value: '([\r\n]+)\s*('', of param: props.conf / [<sourcetype] / LINE_BREAKER; why: missing closing parenthesis

Many thanks

richgalloway — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 19:49:20 GMT

That's a special character in the regex world. Treat it as a normal character by escaping it with '\'.

([\r\n]+)\s*\(

inventsekar — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 20:50:20 GMT

welcome @markturner14 to the wonderful world of regular expressions!
hopefully the issue is resolved now i think.

Please accept @richgalloway 's post or any post closer to your fix, choose it and accept it as the solution.

Best Regards,

Sekar

PS - your karma points will be my 2 cents!

markturner14 — Thu, 26 Nov 2020 21:38:53 GMT

Perfect, thanks @richgalloway and all for the fast supportive responses.

Works as expected