I have a folder that contains archived data that I routinely clean up. We just upgraded to 7.1.3 and I'm trying to take advantage of some of the new functionality in the Delete Folders task. Specifically, I'd like to delete subfolders older than 60 days that have a name that matches \d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} (to match folders named using the pattern yyyy-MM-dd.) The date filter appears to be working correctly, but when I check "Is regex" and enter the string above I don't get any matches. The only regex expression I've been able to get to work is .+. 😢

Any ideas?

I don't know regex but I do wonder how the string you use can be both month and day? I mean, you use \{d2} for both month and day?

EDIT: I see know that you try to match on digits only. Thought you wanted to match on current date.

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Hi Henrik,

\d{2} will (should) match any two digit number. I just want to verify that it looks like a date. Verifying that it is an actual valid date would require more than regex can handle. 😉

This works (see attached):


{REGEX(Match|*|\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})}

Edit: Wait, i lied.... it's finding additional folders too... grrrr

Brian

There is a bug here - thanks for the report. Please test this version:

http://www.visualcron.co....aspx?g=posts&t=3937 

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There is a bug here - thanks for the report. Please test this version:

http://www.visualcron.co....aspx?g=posts&t=3937 

Wow! That was fast! I'll download it and test it out in our QA environment. Thanks!

There is a bug here - thanks for the report. Please test this version:

http://www.visualcron.co....aspx?g=posts&t=3937 

Wow! That was fast! I'll download it and test it out in our QA environment. Thanks!

That's our buddy Henrik, fastest software-fix-developin' cowboy in the west.

I just tested and it's working by simply using a normal REGEX like originally requested:

\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2}


Brian

😎 Just glad it was resolved - thanks for the quick testing!

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