in reply to Seeker of Regex Wisdom (strings which don't form specific patterns)

G'day ilcylic,

While it may be possible to use 'grep -P ...', I suspect using 'perl ...' (on the command line) would be a lot simpler.

Regexp::Common provides often-used regexes; Regexp::Common::net has regexes for IP addresses.

Using this module, I'd eliminate lines matching /^$RE{net}{IPv4}/ first; then attempt to match /^\S+\s+.*?$RE{net}{IPv4}/.

For use on the command line:

$ perl -MRegexp::Common=net -wnE '/^$RE{net}{IPv4}/ and next; /^\S+\s+ +.*?$RE{net}{IPv4}/ and say' 127.0.0.1aaa 127.0.0.1 256.0.0.1aaa 127.0.0.1 256.0.0.1aaa 127.0.0.1 aaa 127.0.0.1 aaa 127.0.0.1

Having tested that solution, I noticed your update with examples. For IPv4, all of the octets should be in the range 0-255. I suspect you generated quick-and-dirty examples (by running along the number keys) which has produced invalid IP addresses. Changing 456 to 156 and 654 to 154, the same one-liner matches the way you want:

$ perl -MRegexp::Common=net -wnE '/^$RE{net}{IPv4}/ and next; /^\S+\s+ +.*?$RE{net}{IPv4}/ and say' ADMIN__SANDRO_DESK="123.156.78.90" # ilcylic Desktop # ADMIN__SANDRO_DESK="123.156.78.90" # ilcylic Desktop # ADMIN__SANDRO_DESK="123.156.78.90" # ilcylic Desktop # 06/06/15 SR Chgd SANDRO 121.123.154.99 # 06/06/15 SR Chgd SANDRO 121.123.154.99

— Ken