The Exscript any_match() function uses regex to match patterns in strings and returns the results in a tuple.
I am attempting to match IP addresses in a traceroute output. It works for the most part, but for some reason returns some extra values (in addition to the targeted addresses). I would like some assistance in the correct regex to use that will return only the IP addresses without the extra values. **Note:**I have googled and searched stackoverflow for regex patterns as well as studied the regex help page. This is the closest regex that's worked so far.
def ios_commands(job, host, conn): conn.execute('terminal length 0') conn.execute('tr {}'.format(DesAddr)) print('The results of the traceroute', repr(conn.response)) for hops in any_match(conn,r'(([0-9]{1,3}\.){3}[0-9]{1,3})'): hop_addresses = list(hops) OUTPUT
the string being searched
hostname>('The results of the traceroute', "'tr 192.33.12.4\\r\\nType escape sequence to abort.\\r\\nTracing the route to hostname (192.33.12.4)\\r\\nVRF info: (vrf in name/id, vrf out name/id)\\r\\n 1 hostname (192.32.0.174) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec\\r\\n 2 hostname (192.32.0.190) 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec\\r\\n 3 192.33.226.225 [MPLS: Label 55 Exp 0] 0 msec 4 msec 0 msec\\r\\n 4 192.33.226.237 0 msec 0 msec 0 msec\\r\\n 5 hostname (192.33.12.4) 4 msec * 0 msec\\r\\nhostname>'") ['192.33.12.4', '12.'] #note the extra '12.' value ['192.33.12.4', '12.'] ['192.32.0.174', '0.'] ['192.32.0.190', '0.'] ['192.33.226.225', '226.'] ['192.33.226.237', '226.'] ['192.33.12.4', '12.'] 
