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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"exclude does not exclude","articleBody":"I cannot get the exclude feature to work.\n\nI have lots of lines starting with a digit. I do not want to see them in the beaver output.\n\nSo I configure\n\n```\n[beaver]\nformat: raw \nlogstash_version: 1\n\n; * Yate logfile eplus live\n[/var/log/apache2/access.log]\nexclude: ^[0-9]\n```\n\nThis still ships every line.\n\nThe only \"regex\" I found to \"work\" was:\n\n```\nexclude: .\n```\n\nwhich, as expected, excluded all lines.\n\nEvery other type of regex I tried did not match.\n\n```\nexclude: ^[0-9]\nexclude: (^[0-9])\nexclude: ^([0-9])\nexclude: \"^[0-9]\"\nexclude: \"(^[0-9])\"\nexclude: \"^([0-9])\"\n; desperate try: match only lines starting with 2\nexclude: ^2\n```\n\nI tried beaver 33.0, 33.1 and then upgraded to 36.2.0 which behaves the same.\n\npython is python2.7.3-6 on debian wheezy\nI also tested\npython 2.7.9-2 on debian jessie\nwhich shows the same behaviour.\n","author":{"url":"https://github.com/kleind","@type":"Person","name":"kleind"},"datePublished":"2016-09-06T09:30:22.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":4},"url":"https://github.com/412/python-beaver/issues/412"}