[hobbit] Some PCRE assistance

[Rich Smrcina]

Yes, that is the format of the list.

I actually solved the problem another way, I always thought the heading 
line was superfluous in this case anyway.

This is for a procs test for the z/VM client that I'm writing.  In this 
case a dispatchable unit of work is a virtual machine, so the 'process' 
list contain the names of the virtual machines.  Well since it is just a 
list of names and not process numbers, CPU Time, command, etc, I just 
changed the back-end client code to not require the heading line coming 
from the client.

Thanks to all who responded.

Charles Goyard wrote:
> 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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