Comparison Criteria Regex issue with quotation marks

Question

I have an IronPort Web Security Appliance (WSA) S160 being backed up via NCM 7.0.2 and it grabs the configuration successfully, but it comes up in the daily change report every day because there are lines indicating how long certain licensed features are valid that I would like to exclude.

Here is an example line:

Feature "CIWUC": Quantity = 250, Time Remaining = "300 days"

I created this Regex

^  Feature "\w+": Quantity = \d+, Time Remaining = "\d+ days"$

Which when testing in Notepad++ matches just fine, but I have found when using quotation marks in NCM it causes ALL configs to then show no changes regardless if I include an escaping \ before the quotation mark or using brackets with the quotation mark being the only valid character this same issue appears to occur. I tried replacing the quotation marks with a . (any character), but the lines still show as changed on the config change report then.

Any ideas how to deal with quotation marks in NCM for excluding them from config comparisons and not breaking all config compares?

jeffness · Accepted Answer

I did manage to get this working although not the way I would have liked...

^  Feature \".+\": Quantity = \w+, Time Remaining = \".+ days\"$

For some reason the numbers after Quantity = didn't match on \d+, but do match on \w+.