The .* in your regular expression is allowing all characters. You can escape this and specify a literal dot with a backslash, like \.
Try [ab]+\..* for example. On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:55 AM, shankhamajumdar < shankha.majum...@lexmark.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Just a small modification, I am using ListFile processor. For example in > the > directory I have 5 files which are > test.txt, ab.txt, ab1.txt. If I use [ab].* in the regular expression I am > getting both the files i.e. ab.txt and ab1.txt. But I just want to get > ab.txt not ab1.txt. Please let me know how to resolve this. > > Regards, > Shankha > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://apache-nifi-developer- > list.39713.n7.nabble.com/File-Filter-regular-expression- > GetFile-tp16279p16280.html > Sent from the Apache NiFi Developer List mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. >
