regular expression help

Hi,

I've been pounding my brain on this one and can't quite get the expression right to pull out what I want. Below is the feed I'm trying to parse. I'm tying to find the id number for any product where "has_eula" is true.

I've tried:

--this does the trick to distinguish each product uniquely, but it captures all products, true and false for eula

If I do something like:

-- It stops on a true, but it gets everything between the first "id" and the first true, (true and false ids mixed together as a single capture).

I can't figure out how to just capture the products with eula set to true in 1 expression. (I need to do it in one expression cause I'll be using it in a JMeter response assertion).

Any times appreciated.

do you REALLY have to do it in one step?

I would personally go through the list of records and pick out the lines where "has_eula" is true, and THEN go through those lines to find their ID number.

If this is always the format of data you are processing, why not try something like this:
-> if the record (one line of text, or whatever) contains "has_eula":false skip it
-> otherwise, process the line to get the ID (or whatever).
If you really need to do it with reg.exp. than something like this "product_id":[\d]* should get you the part where product_id is. On the other hand, this shouldn't take long to process with StringTokenizer.

I need to do it in one step because i'm using the expression in a JMeter response assertion. I'm basically parse through a http response for data. I only get one shot at.

rick simpson wrote:
"id":\d+(,.*?)(?:"has_eula":)[t|f] --this does the trick to distinguish each product uniquely, but it captures all products, true and false for eula

If I do something like:

"id":\d+(,.*?)(?:"has_eula":)true -- It stops on a true, but it gets everything between the first "id" and the first true, (true and false ids mixed together as a single capture).

That is because that is how you defined it. Notice that the pattern between the id component and the eula component is "(,.*?)", which matches everything after the comma including the boundaries separating the different "id" lines.

rick simpson wrote:
I can't figure out how to just capture the products with eula set to true in 1 expression. (I need to do it in one expression cause I'll be using it in a JMeter response assertion).

You need to prevent matches that cross id lines. For example, the lines are enclosed between the curly braces -- so it is not possible to have curly braces between the id component and the eula component. A possible option is to use "(,[^{]*?)", instead of "(,.*?)".

Henry