Find a value before a LF or before a space

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(imported topic written by jeremytoo)

I’m dealing with a text file that may contain my values in an arbitrary order.

Here are four valid potential lines:

password requisite pam_pwcheck.so minlen=7 remember=5

password requisite pam_pwcheck.so remember=5 minlen=7

password requisite pam_pwcheck.so minlen=7 remember=12

password requisite pam_pwcheck.so remember=12 minlen=7

If I use this relevance:

preceding text of first " " of (following text of first “remember=” of (lines whose (it contains regex “^password.*requisite” ) of file “/tmp/test.txt”))

it works on #2 and #4. If I try:

(following text of first “remember=” of (lines whose (it contains regex “^password.*requisite.*remember” ) of file “/tmp/test.txt”))

it works great on #1 and #3, but gets extraneous data on #2 and #4.

What’s the easiest way to say “before the first space, or, if there is no space, just take the value” ?

I know that I can do an if-then statement to see if there are spaces or characters after the remember clause, but this is a tiny piece of some already horrifically complex relevance, and I’m trying to keep it from getting any more unreadable.

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(imported comment written by Bill.Ehardt)

Haven’t really done regex with bigfix yet, so I can’t tell if you can do lookbehind but what about something like this?

following texts of firsts “=” of first matches (regex “remember=\S*”) of lines whose (it contains regex “^password.*requisite”) of file “c:\test.txt”

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(imported comment written by jeremytoo)

That, my good sir, is absolutely brilliant.

It works beautifully. Thank you!