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Member 15959121 wrote:
Microsoft.Sql/servers/*.*/databases


You are misusing the asterisk. It matches the preceding element only. which in this case is the forward slash.

Moreover it matches zero or more. Which is probably not what you want.

However you also said...

"Microsoft.Sql/servers/" and "/databases" should be an exact match



So the first attempt at a fix, which is not correct, would look like the following.

(Microsoft.Sql/servers/)?.*/databases


But that is limited then because it does not match the second expression. You might think the following is a good idea but do NOT do this. You should never create a regex in which everything is optional.

(Microsoft.Sql/servers/)?.*(/databases)?


You would need to use an or ('|') with 3 expressions (match first, match last, match all) which to me is way too confusing from the maintenance standpoint.

It is not even clear to me if you have defined your match space. Presuming the following are NOT valid


Microsoft.Sql/servers/xxx
xxx/databases


Then I would do the following (pseudo code)

if match just: Microsoft.Sql/servers
else if match just: /databases
else match: Microsoft.Sql/servers/.*/databases


But additionally note even the above matches the following which is probably not what you want.

Microsoft.Sql/servers///\\&4xz    /databases/servers/databases

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