Hi,
Rich Smrcina wrote :
I've checked the PCRE tutorial and several other sites and I can not find a good match to what I'm trying to do. I've also run several iterations through pcretest with no joy.
I have a list of users (actually virtual machine names) with the heading 'UserID'. I would like to set up a regex to match any of them, except for the heading. Basically, to count the machines, but ignore the heading line.
I've tried variations of "(!Userid|.*)" with no luck.
I guess you want to do it something like the procs column.
If the format is :
Userid john jane
you might want to try that :
^(?!Userid)(.+)
(Search the string "look-ahead assertion" in perlre(1) for some explanation of this. Don't forget to add the preceding % in your configfile.
It basically permits one to make pattern match only if they are not preceded or followed by certain expressions. (Very useful when piggy-parsing HTML :).
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