I'm struggling with a regex requirement on our Xymon monitoring system which uses Perl format regular expression.


I have the following data,

red Queue TEST1:DI.CATALOGUE.ITEM.IMPORT.BO has depth 10 (critical: 10, warn: 1)
red Queue TEST1:DI.PRODUCT.HIERARCHY.IMPORT.BO has depth 20 (critical: 10, warn: 1)
yellow Queue TEST1:DI.CATSETUP.PRODUCT.IMPORT.BO has depth 9 (warn: 1, critical: 10)
green Queue TEST1:ATP.CANCEL.PARCEL.CONFIRM.EXPORT.BO has depth 0 (warn: 1, critical: 10)
green Queue TEST1:ATP.CANCEL.PARCEL.CONFIRM.EXPORT.LQ has depth 0 (warn: 30, critical: -1)
green Queue TEST1:ATP.DELIVERY.DEFINITION.EXPORT.BO has depth 0 (warn: 1, critical: 10)
green Queue TEST1:ATP.DELIVERY.DEFINITION.EXPORT.LQ has depth 0 (warn: 10, critical: -1)
green Queue TEST1:ATP.FOREIGN.PARCEL.EXPORT.BO has depth 0 (warn: 1, critical: 10)
green Queue TEST1:ATP.FOREIGN.PARCEL.EXPORT.LQ has depth 0 (warn: 5, critical: -1)
green Queue TEST1:ATP.PARCEL.DESPATCH.EXPORT.BO has depth 0 (warn: 1, critical: 10)

In most situations I need to match all lines containing a string ending ".BO" which I do like this,
([A-Z.]*BO)<br>

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however for this particular requirement I need to match the same but exclude the 2 lines below

DI.PRODUCT.HIERARCHY.IMPORT.BO
DI.CATSETUP.PRODUCT.IMPORT.BO

This is where my knowledge of regular expression lets me down as I can't seem to find a way to match all ".BO" except these 2.

It would appear I missed a couple of things.

1. I will probably only ever need to exclude this 2 lines
2. It needs to be a single statement (a peculiarity of Xymon monitoring)
3. The exclusions ideally need to be the whole string but could at a push be restricted to the words HEIRARCHY and CATSETUP

In reply to Regex to match with exclusions by fazedandconfused

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