Processing log file using Regex

Question

I'm trying to match multiple log entries per line. Every entry is in proceeding format:

instance      Role      id          [state] [flags] [activity]     [status]
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
30:9876543210 Secondary 1122334455           V       InTransition
10:0123456789 Primary   9874563210  IB       EV                     FDown

Items between square brackets are optional, while others are mandatory, and they are space separated.

Regex that I wrote, doesn't work as intended, there is a particular case, that I discovered so far, where match fails.

Entry that fails: 30:9876543210 Secondary 1122334455 IB InTransition

Result	Expected Result
instance: 30:9876543210	instance: 30:9876543210
role: Secondary	role: Secondary
id: 1122334455	id: 1122334455
state: IB	state: IB
flags: I	flags:
activity:	activity: InTransition
other: nTransition	other:

There is probably much better solution than mine, even if you have a slightest clue how to fix regex that I wrote or you have your own, please feel free to comment. Thank you.

Edit: Here is a RegExr link with a few examples.

Wiktor Stribiżew · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-21 21:09:33Z

1

You can use

(?<instance>\d+:\d+) (?<role>[a-zA-Z]+) (?<service_id>\d+)(?:\s(?<state>SB|IB|RD|DD))?(?:\s(?<flags>[A-Z]+)\b)?(?:\s(?<activity>InTransition|Down|Up))?(?:\s(?<other>[a-zA-Z]+))?

See the regex demo.

There are two important bits here:

The parts that are optional should represent optional occurrences of obligatory pattern sequences. Note you have sequences of optional patterns, e.g. \s?(?<flags>[A-Z]+)?. They all can match an empty string before a non-matching pattern and you would still receive a match. When you use (?:\s(?<flags>[A-Z]+))?, you match an optional occurrence of an obligatory (one) whitespace and one or more uppercase ASCII letters
The flags part should be matched as a whole word. Hence, it should look like (?:\s(?<flags>[A-Z]+)\b)?.

answered Mar 21, 2021 at 21:09

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