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Regex Look-Behind for Right to Left event

I'm extracting the events ending with Windows LogonIDs... this means like:

Special Privileges assigned to a new Logon: Logon Id: 0x007d

I thought this is the best way to do it:

^(?<event>.+)(?<=ID:\s\d+x[A-F\d]+)$

Using RegexOptions.RightToLeft to start the search from the End of the String.

Using lookbehind so If the {ID: LogonId} didn't exists it will fail as fast as it can.

As I can't find any good Right To Left tester I'm here, asking for your help.

Solution

  • Can you get the position of the match? In Perl, one could do:

    if ($str =~ /ID:\s\d+x[A-F\d]+$/i)
   say substr($str, 0, $-[0]);  # $-[0] is the starting pos of the match.
}

    or

    if ($str =~ /ID:\s\d+x[A-F\d]+$/ip)
   say ${^PREMATCH};
}