[GENERAL ISSUE] Documentation about cloudformation-guard HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @GITOffMuhLawn thanks for the feedback. We are always open to looking into how we can better improve our documentation. I see that the way to handle regex is one of them.

That said while guard in fact does not use a passthrough to the standard rust regex crate, it does use a passthrough to the fancy regex crate. Guard uses /regex/ syntax to tell the engine that we're comparing against a regex pattern.

That said, it's important to note that you have a syntax error here in your example.

the following rule would pass

let bucket = Resources.*[ type == "AWS::S3::Bucket" ]

%bucket !empty

let tag = %bucket.Properties.Tags[ key == /(?i)description/ ]

%tag !empty

using the following yaml file as a test file

Resources:
  bucket:
    Type: "AWS::S3::Bucket"
    Properties:
      Tags:
        - Key: "DeScrIption"
          Value: "my_s3_bucket"

Hope this was sufficient. Please let me know if you'd like any further clarifications.

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Hi, I'm going to assume the above answer was sufficient and will close this issue.

Feel free to reopen if you require any further clarifications

Thanks,

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Apologies for the delay. Appreciate the response on this and the clarification on what regex it uses. I was able to figure out after a bit. I genuinely do appreciate you clarifying so I know for sure and I'm not just guessing.
FWIW once I figured out the syntax through a bit of rough trial and error I thought the regex support was far better than what the cfn-guard documentation said it supported. From what I read the guard documentation made it sound like regex was very limited/barely supported.

The problem I've seen with a lot of your documentation is that you all are way too smart and you don't know how to think like someone that isn't very smart (like me). Once someone that's involved with something from the AWS side explains it, it makes complete sense, but you guys are just on a whole other level. Anyone that can create a concept is next level.

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@GITOffMuhLawn no problem. Appreciate the feedback here on ways we can improve our documentation whether that means adding more of it, or making it easier to understand.

Glad you were able to unblock yourself.

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