Simple Grok test. Compile with: gcc grok_test.c -Wall -lgrok -o grok_test

gistfile1.txt

USERNAME [a-zA-Z0-9_-]+
USER %{USERNAME}
INT (?:[+-]?(?:[0-9]+))
BASE10NUM (?<![0-9.+-])(?>[+-]?(?:(?:[0-9]+(?:\.[0-9]+)?)|(?:\.[0-9]+)))
NUMBER (?:%{BASE10NUM})
BASE16NUM (?<![0-9A-Fa-f])(?:[+-]?(?:0x)?(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]+))
BASE16FLOAT \b(?<![0-9A-Fa-f.])(?:[+-]?(?:0x)?(?:(?:[0-9A-Fa-f]+(?:\.[0-9A-Fa-f]*)?)|(?:\.[0-9A-Fa-f]+)))\b

POSINT \b(?:[0-9]+)\b
WORD \b\w+\b
NOTSPACE \S+
DATA .*?
GREEDYDATA .*
#QUOTEDSTRING (?:(?<!\\)(?:"(?:\\.|[^\\"])*"|(?:'(?:\\.|[^\\'])*')|(?:`(?:\\.|[^\\`])*`)))
QUOTEDSTRING (?:(?<!\\)(?:"(?>[^\\"]+|\\.)*")|(?:'(?>[^\\']+|\\.)*')|(?:`(?>[^\\`]+|\\.)*`))

# Networking
MAC (?:%{CISCOMAC}|%{WINDOWSMAC}|%{COMMONMAC})
CISCOMAC (?:(?:[A-Fa-f0-9]{4}\.){2}[A-Fa-f0-9]{4})
WINDOWSMAC (?:(?:[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}-){5}[A-Fa-f0-9]{2})
COMMONMAC (?:(?:[A-Fa-f0-9]{2}:){5}[A-Fa-f0-9]{2})
IP (?<![0-9])(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9]{1,2})[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9]{1,2})[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9]{1,2})[.](?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]?[0-9]{1,2}))(?![0-9])
HOSTNAME \b(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62})(?:\.(?:[0-9A-Za-z][0-9A-Za-z-]{0,62}))*(\.?|\b)
HOST %{HOSTNAME}
IPORHOST (?:%{HOSTNAME}|%{IP})
HOSTPORT (?:%{IPORHOST=~/\./}:%{POSINT})

# paths
PATH (?:%{UNIXPATH}|%{WINPATH})
UNIXPATH (?:/(?:[\w_%!$@:.,-]+|\\.)*)+
#UNIXPATH (?<![\w\/])(?:/[^\/\s?*]*)+
LINUXTTY (?:/dev/pts/%{POSINT})
BSDTTY (?:/dev/tty[pq][a-z0-9])
TTY (?:%{BSDTTY}|%{LINUXTTY})
WINPATH (?:[A-Za-z]+:|\\)(?:\\[^\\?*]*)+
URIPROTO [A-Za-z]+(\+[A-Za-z+]+)?
URIHOST %{IPORHOST}(?::%{POSINT:port})?
# uripath comes loosely from RFC1738, but mostly from what Firefox
# doesn't turn into %XX
URIPATH (?:/[A-Za-z0-9$.+!*'(),~:#%_-]*)+
#URIPARAM \?(?:[A-Za-z0-9]+(?:=(?:[^&]*))?(?:&(?:[A-Za-z0-9]+(?:=(?:[^&]*))?)?)*)?
URIPARAM \?[A-Za-z0-9$.+!*'(),~#%&/=:;_-]*
URIPATHPARAM %{URIPATH}(?:%{URIPARAM})?
URI %{URIPROTO}://(?:%{USER}(?::[^@]*)?@)?(?:%{URIHOST})?(?:%{URIPATHPARAM})?

# Months: January, Feb, 3, 03, 12, December
MONTH \b(?:Jan(?:uary)?|Feb(?:ruary)?|Mar(?:ch)?|Apr(?:il)?|May|Jun(?:e)?|Jul(?:y)?|Aug(?:ust)?|Sep(?:tember)?|Oct(?:ober)?|Nov(?:ember)?|Dec(?:ember)?)\b
MONTHNUM (?:0?[1-9]|1[0-2])
MONTHDAY (?:3[01]|[1-2]?[0-9]|0?[1-9])

# Days: Monday, Tue, Thu, etc...
DAY (?:Mon(?:day)?|Tue(?:sday)?|Wed(?:nesday)?|Thu(?:rsday)?|Fri(?:day)?|Sat(?:urday)?|Sun(?:day)?)

# Years?
YEAR [0-9]+
# Time: HH:MM:SS
#TIME \d{2}:\d{2}(?::\d{2}(?:\.\d+)?)?
# I'm still on the fence about using grok to perform the time match,
# since it's probably slower.
# TIME %{POSINT<24}:%{POSINT<60}(?::%{POSINT<60}(?:\.%{POSINT})?)?
HOUR (?:2[0123]|[01][0-9])
MINUTE (?:[0-5][0-9])
# '60' is a leap second in most time standards and thus is valid.
SECOND (?:(?:[0-5][0-9]|60)(?:[.,][0-9]+)?)
TIME (?!<[0-9])%{HOUR}:%{MINUTE}(?::%{SECOND})(?![0-9])
# datestamp is YYYY/MM/DD-HH:MM:SS.UUUU (or something like it)
DATE_US %{MONTHNUM}[/-]%{MONTHDAY}[/-]%{YEAR}
DATE_EU %{YEAR}[/-]%{MONTHNUM}[/-]%{MONTHDAY}
ISO8601_TIMEZONE (?:Z|[+-]%{HOUR}(?::?%{MINUTE}))
ISO8601_SECOND (?:%{SECOND}|60)
TIMESTAMP_ISO8601 %{YEAR}-%{MONTHNUM}-%{MONTHDAY}[T ]%{HOUR}:?%{MINUTE}(?::?%{SECOND})?%{ISO8601_TIMEZONE}?
DATE %{DATE_US}|%{DATE_EU}
DATESTAMP %{DATE}[- ]%{TIME}
TZ (?:[PMCE][SD]T)
DATESTAMP_RFC822 %{DAY} %{MONTH} %{MONTHDAY} %{YEAR} %{TIME} %{TZ}
DATESTAMP_OTHER %{DAY} %{MONTH} %{MONTHDAY} %{TIME} %{TZ} %{YEAR}

# Syslog Dates: Month Day HH:MM:SS
SYSLOGTIMESTAMP %{MONTH} +%{MONTHDAY} %{TIME}
PROG (?:[\w._/-]+)
SYSLOGPROG %{PROG:program}(?:\[%{POSINT:pid}\])?
SYSLOGHOST %{IPORHOST}
SYSLOGFACILITY <%{POSINT:facility}.%{POSINT:priority}>
HTTPDATE %{MONTHDAY}/%{MONTH}/%{YEAR}:%{TIME} %{INT:ZONE}

# Shortcuts
QS %{QUOTEDSTRING}

# Log formats
SYSLOGBASE %{SYSLOGTIMESTAMP:timestamp} (?:%{SYSLOGFACILITY} )?%{SYSLOGHOST:logsource} %{SYSLOGPROG}:
COMBINEDAPACHELOG %{IPORHOST:clientip} %{USER:ident} %{USER:auth} \[%{HTTPDATE:timestamp}\] "%{WORD:verb} %{URIPATHPARAM:request} HTTP/%{NUMBER:httpversion}" %{NUMBER:response} (?:%{NUMBER:bytes}|-) "(?:%{URI:referrer}|-)" %{QS:agent}

grok_test.c

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <grok.h>
#include <grok_match.h>
#include <assert.h>

int main() {
  const char *patterns_file = "/Users/blake/projects/go-grok/patterns/base";
  int ret;
  grok_match_t match;

  grok_t *grok = grok_new();

  if (grok == NULL) {
    puts("Failed to init grok!");

    exit(-1);
  }

  ret = grok_patterns_import_from_file(grok, patterns_file);

  if (ret != GROK_OK) {
    puts("Failed to import files!");

    exit(-1);
  }

  ret = grok_compile(grok, "%{DAY}");
  
  if (ret != GROK_OK) {
    puts("Failed to compile!");

    exit(-1);
  }

  const char *text = "Tue May 15 11:21:42 [conn1047685] moveChunk deleted: 7157";
  
  ret = grok_exec(grok, text, &match);

  if (ret != GROK_OK) {
    puts("Failed to match!");
    printf("%d\n", ret);

    exit(-1);
  }

  char *name = NULL;
  const char *substring = NULL;
  int namelen;
  int sublen;
  
  grok_match_walk_init(&match);

  while (grok_match_walk_next(&match, &name, &namelen, &substring, &sublen) == GROK_OK) {
    char n[namelen];
    char s[sublen];
    
    strncpy(n, name, namelen);
    strncpy(s, substring, sublen);
    
    printf("%d: %d\n", namelen, sublen);
    printf("%s: %s\n", n, s);
  }

  grok_match_walk_end(&match);

  return 0;
}