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Exercism #46: Parsing Log Files
Learning Goal
Regular Expressions
Relevant Information
Processing of regular expressions are handled using the Regex class
Task 1: Identify garbled log lines
To determine if the logs contains one of these at the beginning: [TRC][DBG][INF][WRN][ERR][FTL] I used the IsMatch() method
Task 2: Split the log line
To split the Log files that contains a first character of “<” and a last character of “>” and any combination of the following characters “^”, “*”, “=” and “-” in between replacing them with a comma and splitting the string into an array of strings, I used pattern recognition, the Replace() method to replace the pattern and the split method to give an array.
Task 3: Count the number of lines containing a quoted password
To count the number of quoted passwords defined as a string enclosed in double quotes, is case sensitive and can have other content between the quotes, I used the method Matches().
Task 4: Remove artifacts from log
To remove the end of line text a line ended by a number without intervening spaces from the given line using Regex and replace it by a clean string I used the Replace() method.
Task 5: List lines with extremely weak passwords so the guilty can be punished
I spotted weak password using pattern recognition in a Match instance.