Regex help. This is working on <regex101.com> (her...
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Dave Smith
09/08/2025, 4:41 PMRegex help. This is working on regex101.com (here's the link:https://regex101.com/r/Rt773n/1) but it appears that signoz doesn't like it. How can I find out why?
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Dave Smith
09/08/2025, 4:42 PMI got the regex from signoz AI chat bot 🙂 It appears to be correct in the regex101 test environment
Dave Smith
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(?i).*(chrome|firefox|safari(?!.*chrome)|edge|opera|internet explorer|msie)v
Vibhu Pandey
09/08/2025, 4:45 PMPlease try using python style named capture groups
(?P<TYPE>\[(.*?)\])(?<TYPE>\[(.*?)\])d
Dave Smith
09/08/2025, 4:47 PMI haven't used those before. Is this converted correctly?
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(?i).*(?P<string>chrome|firefox|safari(?!.*chrome)|edge|opera|internet explorer|msie)v
Vibhu Pandey
09/08/2025, 4:51 PMDoes it work while simulation in signoz?
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Dave Smith
09/08/2025, 4:58 PMI don't know what the simulation area is.
I have got it to work, by adding a name to the negative lookahead group too:
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(?i).*(?P<browser>chrome|firefox|safari(?P<s>!.*chrome)|edge|opera|internet explorer|msie)Dave Smith
09/08/2025, 4:58 PMThank you for helping me out!
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