Hi Felix, 1. true 2. I don't understand the problem , can you clarify for me ?
3. Yes we want to trap: - Sample1 - Sample1-success - Sample1-failure - Sample2 - Sample2-success - Sample2-failure Ideally not Sample2XXX-success. Do you see a better regex ? Thanks On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:23 PM, Felix Schumacher < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > the regex for series_filter is currently set to > > ((^Sample1)|(^Sample2))(-success|-failure)? > > in the user.properties file. > > The regex could be written a bit shorter as > > ^Sample[12](-success|-failure)? > > But there are still a few things to consider. > > 1. I don't think that we are interested in the captured groups and > could tell the regex engine that by using (?:...) instead of (...). > > 2. The ^ in front of Sample1 makes it look like the regex would be used > as "find", as there is no $ to indicate the end of a line. > > 3. The ? after the last group indicates that the results could be one > of > + Sample1 > + Sample1-success > + Sample1-failure > + Sample2... > Is this true? Or is just ...-success and ...-failure? In that case > the ? at the end of the regex should be removed. > > Regards, > Felix > > > > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
