Filesystem discovery RegEx Problem

[muelli]

Hello forum,

I have a problem with a custom filesystem discovery RegEx.
Filesystems are like this:

1)
/application/something/else

2)
/application/something/unwanted/else


My regex so far is ^(application.+) which matches 1+2. But I do NOT want 2 to match.
So far I could not find a regex that matches 1 but does NOT match 2.

Does someone have a hint on a fitting regex?
Thanks!

[nuri]

Dear Zabbixian Friend,

I am very new to REGEX.
I have made a guess as of below;
Hope this will help ....

\/application(?!(\/something\/unwanted\/else))

https://regex101.com/r/puCpMK/1

Regards,

Nuri.

[muelli]

Thanks for the tip, actually the "something" part is dynamic as well :/

more like this
/application/XYZ/unwanted/other/parts
where XYZ is 3 characters always.

[nuri]

Hello,

Try this >>> \/application(?!(\/\w{9}\/unwanted\/else))

[nuri]

Hello,

Or try that >>> \/application(?!(\/\w{3}\/unwanted\/else))

[muelli]

Hm, the first one does not match anything, the second one matches both....
It is tricky....maybe this cannot be solved via regex at all.....

I came up with this:

^\/application\/.{3}\/(?!(unwanted))

This part: ^\/application\/.{3}\/
should match /application/XYZ/
now all I must figure out is to append something like a "AND NOT 'unwanted'"

[nuri]

Hello,

https://regex101.com/r/xjLW4y/1




something >>> 9 characters.

[muelli]

THats it, works in regex tester, now I will put it into zabbix!
Thanks for your help!

[nuri]

Nice to hear you are happy with that.