Spaces in "matches regex"

[smitty3501]

so we have a new user who happens to have one of our keywords in his name...  "abort"   this is causing some false alerts when he get logged.

old code:

MATCHES REGEX "(?i)^PROD.+(IN FILE ERRFAILED WITH A JSI|REJECTED|ABORT|ZZSA|

can I do the following to eliminate this error ( basically want to add spaces around the word "abort" since his name is  CHAKRABORTY )

new code ?

MATCHES REGEX "(?i)^PROD.+(IN FILE ERRFAILED WITH A JSI|REJECTED| ABORT |ZZSA|

[Scott_Clement · Accepted solution]

Hi @smitty3501,

You could use the delimited value for a single space:

\sABORT

For one or more spaces:

\s+ABORT

I also find this web site is extremely useful for testing out regular expressions: https://regex101.com/

Hope this helps!

Regards,

Scott Clement

[smitty3501]

Thanks Scott,  unfortunately my employer wont allow access to that site from inside the organization

[Scott_Clement]

Hi @smitty3501,

Sorry to hear that's not an option for you. If you do some searching, you can also find free or paid downloadable utilities that will do the same thing without an internet connection, although I'm confident that would be an option for you either.

Hopefully you don't have to work with regular expressions too often!

Regards,

Scott Clement