When using regular expressions that include the \ character (and perhaps others) they need to be in single quotes, not double quotes. Also, the dates of the form Feb 8 10:11:54" often have a leading space on the day, so that your regex really needs to be '^\w+\s+\d+' to match both Feb 9 10:11:54 Feb 19 10:11:54 Not sure if that was your case, but it is a safer regex to cover such cases. I cant speak to why the space gets eaten in your '8 09:55:54 CST: ' example. Evan. On 2/8/19 8:18 AM, N. Max Pierson wrote:
Hi List,
I am having some weird issues with rewrite regex that I cannot explain. I am simply trying to filter out the first part of the message which has the date in this format.
Feb 8 09:13:32 CST: (there is one space at the end)
When I use the following syntax, it doesn't match as expected.
^\w+\s\d+\s\d+:\d+:\d+\s\w+:\s
I know this is the correct pattern because it works just fine on www.regexpal.com <http://www.regexpal.com>. I did some further testing and I have narrowed it down to the below ...
^\w+ 8 09:55:54 CST: (this seemed to also remove the space behind the month)
^\w+\s 8 09:59:37 CST: (notice this is the exact same as the above without the beginning space)
^\w+\s\d+ Feb 8 10:07:04 CST: (doesn't match anything as though the space between Feb and 8 isn't there)
^\w+\d+ Feb 8 10:11:54 CST: (again doesn't match anything as though there is a space between Feb and 8)
So it seems to be something either with \w word class or the + quantifier and it somehow eats the space behind it possibly?? I am running 3.19.1 on Centos 7.
Can anyone test this to confirm it isn't just local to my install for whatever reason?
Regards, Max