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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