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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:45:14+00:00

I’m dealing with a simple problem I guess. I have a Cognos Report that

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I’m dealing with a simple problem I guess.

I have a Cognos Report that leaves two files in a folder, after that an interface has to pick up one of the files depending on the filename to start running.

The report process asks the user to set a name to the report. For ex. if I choose the name PaymentJournal06.09, it creates these files:

PaymentJournal 06.09-en-us-xml_desc.xml
PaymentJournal 06.09-en-us.xml

I need a regular expression to pick up only the second file. I tried with PaymentJournal*-en-us.xml but it doesn’t work.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You’re very close. The . is a special character in regular expressions which matches any one character. So where you had the * wildcard, you want a .* or a .+ instead. The first matches 0 or more of any character, and the second matches 1 or more, but both should work for this case. Then, the . you used needs to be escaped, like \., because you actually want to match a . there. Putting it all together:

    PaymentJournal.*-en-us\.xml

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