Great to hear! It's not that intuitive, I know. Any idea how to make
this more obvious to users?

Rainer

El jue., 16 may. 2019 a las 16:59, Joan (<[email protected]>) escribió:
>
> Thanks a lot, it's working now
>
> Missatge de Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> del dia dj., 16 de 
> maig 2019 a les 11:03:
>>
>> El jue., 16 may. 2019 a las 9:57, Joan via rsyslog
>> (<[email protected]>) escribió:
>> >
>> > I am trying the expression below to detect the time format from java
>> > (13-May-2019 09:18:42.268)
>> >
>> >      startmsg.regex="^[[:digit:]]{2}-[[:alpha:]]{3}-[[:digit:]]{4}
>> > > [[:digit:]]{1,2}:[[:digit:]]{1,2}:[[:digit:]]{1,2}\.[[:digit:]]{3}"
>> > >
>> > It works fine except for the \. to match an explicit dot
>>
>> Note that you are specifiying a string. Backslash escapes special
>> characters inside a string (just like in many programming and
>> scripting languages). So to get one backslash in the final result, you
>> need to give two. Like this:
>>
>> startmsg.regex="^[[:digit:]]{2}-[[:alpha:]]{3}-[[:digit:]]{4}
>> [[:digit:]]{1,2}:[[:digit:]]{1,2}:[[:digit:]]{1,2}\\.[[:digit:]]{3}"
>>
>> HTH
>> Rainer
>> >
>> > rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/45-config.conf, on or
>> > > before line 17: invalid character '"' in object definition - is there an
>> > > invalid escape sequence somewhere? [v8.1904.0 try
>> > > https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
>> > > rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/45-config.conf, on or
>> > > before line 17: invalid character '^' in object definition - is there an
>> > > invalid escape sequence somewhere? [v8.1904.0 try
>> > > https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
>> > > rsyslogd: error during parsing file /etc/rsyslog.d/45-config.conf, on or
>> > > before line 17: syntax error on token '[' [v8.1904.0 try
>> > > https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
>> > > rsyslogd: could not interpret master config file '/etc/rsyslog.conf'.
>> > > [v8.1904.0 try https://www.rsyslog.com/e/2207 ]
>> > >
>> > Is there another syntax I'm missing?
>> > I am Using 8.1904.0-0adiscon1bionic1 from the adiscon ppa
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >
>> > Joan
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