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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">OK great advice here. I have a working regex now, but just wondered why mine wasn’t working to start with. I’ll do some more testing
at this end, but my primary problem is now solved.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Thanks to everyone that replied.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Cheers,<br>
Andi<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:windowtext"> users [mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brent Putman<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 29 January 2016 20:14<br>
<b>To:</b> users@shibboleth.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: RegexSplit resolver returning no values<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1/29/16 6:43 AM, Rod Widdowson wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<pre>... and you’ve tried the extra (regex="(<a href="file:///\\d%7b5%7d)">\\d{5})</a>").<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>Apart from that, pass, someone the other side of the pond should be able to<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>help. <o:p></o:p></pre>
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Try one of these, works for me:<br>
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^(\d{5}).*$<br>
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^(<a href="file:///\\d%7b5%7d).*$">\\d{5}).*$</a><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For a Java String literal, you definitely need the 2nd one, with backslash escape of the literal backslash, b/c of String literal requirements. Not sure about here in the IdP, I think you don't need the escaping when the pattern input
is read in as "data". So the 1st one might work there.<br>
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The main thing is: I don't know off-hand exactly why it doesn't work without the anchors, but it doesn't. That's usually the first thing I try when a regex doesn't work as I expect: remove ambiguity and explicitly anchor at both ends.<br>
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Fyi, here's the simple Java scratch code I wrote to test. Mirrors what the RegexSplit- attribute definition does:<br>
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<tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt">public class RegExTest {</span></tt><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New""><br>
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<tt> public static void main(String[] args) {</tt><br>
<tt> String target = "12345 some text 12/01/17";</tt><br>
<tt> String patternInput = "^(<a href="file:///\\d%7b5%7d).*$">\\d{5}).*$</a>";</tt><br>
<tt> </tt><br>
<tt> Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(patternInput);</tt><br>
<tt> Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(target);</tt><br>
<tt> if (matcher.matches()) {</tt><br>
<tt> System.out.println("SUCCESS: matched!");</tt><br>
<tt> System.out.println("Saw group 1: " + matcher.group(1));</tt><br>
<tt> } else {</tt><br>
<tt> System.out.println("FAIL: Didn't match!");</tt><br>
<tt> }</tt><br>
<tt> }</tt><br>
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<tt>}</tt></span><br>
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In that code, without the anchors, the pattern doesn't even "match" the target string.<br>
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<pre>I detest regexps and always have.....<o:p></o:p></pre>
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That's because regexps exist in the realm of the Dark Arts, and we prefer to live in the light...
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