Can't get "negative readahead" to work

[Mark Syms]

We have two types of builds on our Jenkins server, CI incremental builds and then (one for each CI job) a nightly build that does a full clean build for QA.

I want to create two views to show these separately. The nightly view is easy as all the jobs are called xxx_Nightly, however I can't get the reverse view to work. The help indicates that (?!_Nightly) should be the magic regex that is needed but I either end up with nothing selected or every build selected.

Does this negative readahed regex actually work for filtering jobs or am I just doing it wrong?

Thanks,

Mark

[Daniel Beck]

On 22.07.2014, at 09:00, Mark Syms <syms...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The help indicates that (?!_Nightly) should be the magic regex that is needed but I either end up with nothing selected or every build selected.
>
> Does this negative readahed regex actually work for filtering jobs or am I just doing it wrong?

There's a difference between lookahead (something not preceded by something else) and lookbehind (something not followed by something else). The example is a negative lookahead, in your situation you need negative lookbehind. The following should work:

.*(?<!_Nightly)

You could also install View Job Filters plugin and define the view in terms of the other view ("Other Views Filter", include unmatched; or "Unclassified Jobs"). These may have problems in some permissions configurations though.

[Mark Syms]

That did it, thanks Daniel.

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