Regex. I want everything BUT a specific pattern-CodePudding

I have data that looks this:

Key:         [36;1m2848761038914979188[0m
Partition:   0
Offset:      33443
Timestamp:   2022-09-27 15:57:57.693 -0400 EDT
Key:         [36;1m2039734487331374643[0m
Partition:   0
Offset:      33444
Timestamp:   2022-09-27 17:26:31.477 -0400 EDT
Key:         [36;1m2868926969028805951[0m
Partition:   0
Offset:      33445
Timestamp:   2022-09-27 17:41:31.473 -0400 EDT
Key:         [36;1m2936812472746641386[0m
Partition:   0
Offset:      33446
Timestamp:   2022-09-27 18:02:23.803 -0400 EDT

I want a regex to match EVERYTHING BUT the numbers in between [36;1m and [0m. How do I capture this? I don't want to regex match the numbers... I want everything BUT the numbers (I want this so I can delete everything but the numbers in my text editor).

this regex isn't good enough: (^|\[)(?!36;1m)[^\[]*:

CodePudding user response：

Aren't you overcomplicating this? It sounds like this is enough:

\[36;1m(\d )\[0m

CodePudding user response：

You can use this regex:

[^[] (\[36;1m|$)|\[0m

with the global flag set.

Explanation:

[^[] - match one or more characters, that are NOT [.

(\[36;1m|$) - create a group that matches EITHER [36;1m OR end of string ($).

|\[0m - OR match [0m.

I have created this test page for you (uses javascript, but should work in all regex flavors: JSRegExpBuilder