Preprocessing regex matches only first match and then stops - please help

[Raimond56]

Hello,

I am having trouble with regex preprocessing only matching one time and then stops matching. Seems like zabbix is not using /g modifer for regex
How to solve this issue.

Zabbix version: 5.0

Below example is what I mean
Let say we have regex: (?=.*[0-9])(.*)(?<=is)

We are matching against:

1 one line is here
2 second line is here
3 third line is here
4 fourth line is here
5 so on is here
6 possibly is more here

This matches everything until "is" on each line. Here is regex101 link also: https://regex101.com/r/NicKyj/1
So group 1 should be all those matches.

But in zabbix when I test in preprocessing it will only match the first line. See the image:



Is it possible in zabbix to return results from each line in this case in preprocessing ?

Best regards,
Raimond

[cyber]

Yes, it returns only one match. 1 item, 1 value....:P What would be the usecase of returning multiple?
If you need data manipulation, use javascript. Or your source should return already prepared data, so no manipulations are needed.

[Raimond56]

Thanks for quick answer!
Yes the usecase would be to manipulate data - to remove few constantly changing values and as next step in preprocessing use discard unchanged against the remaining data.

But then it is clear, must learn and create a small javascript most likely.

Thank you!