If you want to allow that MIB can appear anywhere else other that immmediately after GUIDE_ you can change the regex for :
(.*)GUIDE_(?!MIB)((?!P4).)*$ Richard Lavoie > On 2014-09-19, at 06:52, Richard Lavoie <lavoie.rich...@gmail.com> wrote: > > As a few people already mentioned you need to anchor your pattern. Otherwise, > .* might match what you want to exclude and attempt the match after it, > resulting in an unwanted result. > > What your regx is doing in words is this: > > (.*) match anywhere > GUIDE_ : normal text match > (?!MIB) : immediately not followed by MIB > (.*) : match anywhere > (?!P4) : not followed by P4 > > Now, what you want to do if MIB and P4 can be anywhere after GUIDE_ is to > match every character and the make sure it is not followed by any of those, > up to the end. The regex for that would be: > > (.*)GUIDE_(?:(?!MIB)(?!P4).)*$ > > The fancy part at the end translates into : > > Make sure the following text is neither MIB or P4 when you try to match the > next char, up to the end of string. it does not make a distinction weither > MIB comes before or after P4. It will make sure any of those is not after > GUIDE_ > > Richard Lavoie > >> On 2014-09-19, at 03:38, Jan Seidel <wakkal...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have a weird issue with a regular expression. >> Hopefully you can help me out here. >> >> I have a RegEx like (.*)GUIDE_(?!MIB)(.*)(?!P4) >> It should, as far as I can tell, list all jobs containing GUIDE but exclude >> GUIDE jobs with a MIB in the middle or P4 at the end of the project name, >> right? >> >> My problem here is, that jobs with a P4 at the end still are listed :( >> >> I have for testing purposes tried all kind of RegEx that crossed my mind but >> without any success. >> Later I tried just to exclude job names with a P4 at the end. No joy >> >> The RegEx I used was: (.*)GUIDE_(.*)(?!P4) >> The list is then completely emtpy. >> >> Can someone tell me where I glitch? >> >> Cheers >> Jan >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
