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  • A single character of: a, b or c
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    a{3,6}
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#include <StringConstants.au3> ; to declare the Constants of StringRegExp #include <Array.au3> ; UDF needed for _ArrayDisplay and _ArrayConcatenate Local $sRegex = "(?m)\"ruleGroupId\":\s*\"(?<ruleGroupId>[^\"]+)\",[\r\n](.+[\r\n]){2}(\"excludedRules\"\:\s\[)([\r\n].+)[\r\n]\"exclusionType\"\:\s*\"(?<exclusionTpe>[^\"]+)" Local $sString = "{" & @CRLF & _ ""timestamp": 1646229254523," & @CRLF & _ ""formatVersion": 1," & @CRLF & _ ""webaclId": "arn:aws:wafv2:us-east-1:111111:regional/webacl/alb-stage-web-acl/26ac170c-03c4-4fd7-8fab-86e346789fef"," & @CRLF & _ ""terminatingRuleId": "Default_Action"," & @CRLF & _ ""terminatingRuleType": "REGULAR"," & @CRLF & _ ""action": "ALLOW"," & @CRLF & _ ""terminatingRuleMatchDetails": []," & @CRLF & _ ""httpSourceName": "ALB"," & @CRLF & _ ""httpSourceId": "182116744736-app/ALB-Stage/fcc1f5f9483b035e"," & @CRLF & _ ""ruleGroupList": [" & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""ruleGroupId": "AWS#AWSManagedRulesAmazonIpReputationList"," & @CRLF & _ ""terminatingRule": null," & @CRLF & _ ""nonTerminatingMatchingRules": []," & @CRLF & _ ""excludedRules": null" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""ruleGroupId": "AWS#AWSManagedRulesBotControlRuleSet"," & @CRLF & _ ""terminatingRule": null," & @CRLF & _ ""nonTerminatingMatchingRules": []," & @CRLF & _ ""excludedRules": null" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""ruleGroupId": "AWS#AWSManagedRulesCommonRuleSet"," & @CRLF & _ ""terminatingRule": null," & @CRLF & _ ""nonTerminatingMatchingRules": []," & @CRLF & _ ""excludedRules": [" & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""exclusionType": "EXCLUDED_AS_COUNT"," & @CRLF & _ ""ruleId": "SizeRestrictions_BODY"" & @CRLF & _ "}" & @CRLF & _ "]" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""ruleGroupId": "AWS#AWSManagedRulesKnownBadInputsRuleSet"," & @CRLF & _ ""terminatingRule": null," & @CRLF & _ ""nonTerminatingMatchingRules": []," & @CRLF & _ ""excludedRules": null" & @CRLF & _ "}" & @CRLF & _ "]," & @CRLF & _ ""rateBasedRuleList": []," & @CRLF & _ ""nonTerminatingMatchingRules": []," & @CRLF & _ ""requestHeadersInserted": null," & @CRLF & _ ""responseCodeSent": null," & @CRLF & _ ""httpRequest": {" & @CRLF & _ ""clientIp": "67.218.14.10"," & @CRLF & _ ""country": "US"," & @CRLF & _ ""headers": [" & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "host"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "sample.com"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "content-length"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "50362"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "cache-control"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "max-age=0"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "sec-ch-ua"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "\" Not A;Brand\";v=\"99\", \"Chromium\";v=\"98\", \"Microsoft Edge\";v=\"98\""" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "sec-ch-ua-mobile"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "?0"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "sec-ch-ua-platform"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "\"Windows\""" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "origin"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "https://sample.com"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "upgrade-insecure-requests"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "1"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "dnt"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "1"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "content-type"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "multipart/form-data; boundary=----WebKitFormBoundaryuXOFvh7iQjJkEJHm"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "user-agent"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/98.0.4758.102 Safari/537.36 Edg/98.0.1108.62"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "accept"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.9"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "sec-fetch-site"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "same-origin"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "sec-fetch-mode"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "navigate"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "sec-fetch-user"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "?1"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "sec-fetch-dest"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "document"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "referer"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "https://sample.com/DischargeDetail.aspx"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "accept-encoding"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "gzip, deflate, br"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "accept-language"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "en-US,en;q=0.9"" & @CRLF & _ "}," & @CRLF & _ "{" & @CRLF & _ ""name": "cookie"," & @CRLF & _ ""value": "_ga=GA1.3.84334902.1642521795; __RequestVerificationToken=-8kinKddCjKCZTws-wPmXDZTFg39urggswPnYm5Y15UwfIjspHqTj1hOPAXIaRPHL2cupyt2vO4Gb5QUExZGd6e5djS0v81kxt2pH22Ow9XiJYr2NPWB_BdQb-VmCUHVXbiVZZ5NwTfGDrXd2O0uD_gba4fM3PhkQUO5f9zs5381; _gid=GA1.2.249665053.1645964709; _ga_33R15ZN4N1=GS1.1.1645965393.6.0.1645965397.56; _ga=GA1.2.84334902.1642521795; ASP.NET_SessionId=1fnikipv2poi14r3doy4kb2w"" & @CRLF & _ "}" & @CRLF & _ "]," & @CRLF & _ ""uri": "/ReleaseRequest.aspx"," & @CRLF & _ ""args": ""," & @CRLF & _ ""httpVersion": "HTTP/2.0"," & @CRLF & _ ""httpMethod": "POST"," & @CRLF & _ ""requestId": "1-621f7706-5e8f4ea33e2dc0cc66b98797"" & @CRLF & _ "}" & @CRLF & _ "}" Local $aArray = StringRegExp($sString, $sRegex, $STR_REGEXPARRAYGLOBALFULLMATCH) Local $aFullArray[0] For $i = 0 To UBound($aArray) -1 _ArrayConcatenate($aFullArray, $aArray[$i]) Next $aArray = $aFullArray ; Present the entire match result _ArrayDisplay($aArray, "Result")

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