Regular Expression to find string in Expect buffer - regex

Question

I'm trying to find a regex that works to match a string of escape characters (an Expect response, see this question) and a six digit number (with alpha-numeric first character).
Here's the whole string I need to identify:
\r\n\u001b[1;14HX76196
Ultimately I need to extract the string:
X76196
Here's what I have already:
interact {
#...
#...
#this expression does not identify the screen location
#I need to find "\r\n\u001b[1;14H" AND "([a-zA-Z0-9]{1})[0-9]{5}$"
#This regex was what I was using before.
-nobuffer -re {^([a-zA-Z0-9]{1})?[0-9]{5}$} {
set number $interact_out(0,string)
}
I need to identify the escape characters to to verify that it is a field in that screen region. So I need a regex that includes that first portion, but the backslashes are confusing me...
Also once I have the full string in the $number variable, how do I isolate just the number in another variable in Tcl?

Answer 1

If you just want the number at the end, then this should be enough...
[0-9]{6}
Update with new information
Assuming \n is a newline character, rather than a literal \ followed by a literal n, you can do this...
\r\n\u001B\[1;14H(X[0-9]{5})

Answer 2

I found out a few things with some more digging. First of all I wasn't looking at the output of the program but the input of the user. I needed to add the "-o" flag to look at the program output. I also shortened the regex to just the necessary part.
The regex example from #rikh led me to look at why his or my own regex was failing, and that was due to the fact that I wasn't looking at the output but the input. So the original regex that I tried wasn't at fault but the data being looked at (missing the "-o" flag)
Here's the complete answer to my problem.
interact {
#...
-o -nobuffer -re {(\[1;14H[a-zA-Z0-9]{1})[0-9]{5}} {
#get number in place
set numraw $interact_out(0,string)
#get just number out
set num [string range $numraw 6 11]
#switch to lowercase
set num [string tolower $num]
send_user " stored number: $num"
}
}
I'm a noob with Expect and Tcl so if any of this doesn't make sense or if you have any more insights into the interact flags, please set me straight.