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@Sam Russo:
Hello Sam,
The regex engine does not look for keywords, but interprets the combination of metacharacters (=characters with special meaning) and regular characters (=characters with literal meaning) as a search pattern, then attempts to match the *entire* pattern in a given text. Due to this, it would be extremely difficult - if not impossible - to implement a feature that you just described. I am afraid, your only option is to use more descriptive comments for the keyword entries.
@Daniel Novak (Vamsoft):
OK, but please consider it as a feature request.
Regex tests usually result in an array of matches so the developers may have an easy time to include $matches[1] in the comment field that could be substituted for a placeholder.
Is it possible to show the regex match result in the message field of the ORF log?
To keep the number of rules down to a manageable level, I often combine searches in a single regex and it would help to know which part matched. For example:
Filter comment: Subject keywords 20160328
regex: .*(word1|word2|word3)
For a message with a subject containing "word2", in the log it would be nice to see the comment plus the match, as in: "Subject keywords 20160328 word2"
Thanks in advance