Mapped attribute and regex not returning expected result

[Tom Scavo]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 6:52 PM, Lipscomb, Gary <glipscomb at csu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> If the employeeNumber is
>     12345678           it  returns    12345678      as expected
>     12345678A        it returns     12345678      as expected
>     1234A                 it returns     1234                as expected
>
>     1234A5678        it returns      nothing        but I expected 1234. The attribute is not populated

Not all regex processors are equivalent but these shell commands (on
Mac OS) should give you some idea:

$ foo="12345678
12345678A
1234A
1234A5678"
$ echo "$foo" | sed -E 's/^([0-9]*).*$/\1/'
12345678
12345678
1234
1234

Hope this helps,

Tom