Regular expressions used by IBM MQ Managed File Transfer

IBM® MQ Managed File Transfer uses regular expressions in a number of scenarios. For example, regular expressions are used to match user IDs for Connect:Direct® security credentials, or to split a file into multiple messages by creating a new message each time a regular expression is matched. The regular expression syntax used by IBM MQ Managed File Transfer is the syntax supported by the java.util.regex API. This regular expression syntax is similar to, but not the same as, the regular expression syntax used by the Perl language.

For more information about Java regular expressions, see the Java tutorial Regular Expressions.

Examples

To match all patterns, use the following regular expression:

.*

To match all patterns that begin with the string fte, use the following regular expression:


fte.*

To match all patterns that begin with the string accounts followed by a single digit, and end with .txt, use the following regular expression:


accounts[0-9]\.txt