Did you try ^\\d.* ?

adam.

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On 14/11/2016 23:51:34, Michael <obslist@smarsz.com> wrote:

Thanks, that worked.

Though I can't figure out why the others aren't working (even ^\d.*). Does the interface choke on the backslashes?





On 15 November 2016 10:02:26 am AEDT, Ed Iwanski wrote:
>hostname notregexp ^[0-9]
>
>On Nov 14, 2016 4:39 PM, "Michael" wrote:
>
>> When you have a problem that can be solved with regex, you now have
>two
>> problems...
>>
>> I'm having trouble making a fairly basic regex string match in the
>> alerting system.
>>
>> I want to not match any devices that have hostnames starting with a
>digit.
>> Easy, right.
>>
>> I think my problem is not finding the right bracing to build the
>syntax
>> within the ui.
>>
>> Things I have tried that don't seem to work:
>>
>> hostname notregexp \b\d.*
>> hostname notregexp /\b\d.*/
>> hostname notregexp /(\b\d.*)/
>> hostname notregexp '/\b\d.*/'
>> hostname notregexp "\b\d.*"
>> hostname notregexp "/\b\d.*/"
>> hostname notregexp '\b\d.*'
>>
>>
>> Has anybody figured out what the secret handshake is?
>>
>> Michael
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