Netscaler Action - Replace Period with Hyphen - citrix

I am trying to use a Content Switching Action in my netscaler to replace the periods in a domain name with a hyphen.
This is how I am doing this currently;
HTTP.REQ.HOSTNAME.BEFORE_STR(".") + "-" + HTTP.REQ.HOSTNAME.DOMAIN.BEFORE_STR(".") + "-" + HTTP.REQ.HOSTNAME.DOMAIN.AFTER_STR(".")
Not only does this look really sloppy, but it only works for a 3 part domain name.
EG: it works for "site.domain.com" but not "sub.site.domain.com"
I haven't been able to find a simple .REPLACE(str, result) for the HOSTNAME or DOMAIN parts.
.PATH provides a simple to use .PATH.GET( int_path_part ), but HOSTNAME does not.
I am using version 11.0.69 Netscaler software.
What am I missing here? This seems like it should be simple to do but the Expression Editor seems to handicap my ability to do this.

RE "I haven't been able to find a simple .REPLACE(str, result) for the HOSTNAME or DOMAIN parts."
On a Rewrite Action choose type= Replace_ALL || Replace
You can either do a logical replace with regular expressions or a static replace where you simply have 1 rewrite policy / action for each application. You can also do a KV Pair type of replace where you lookup in a kv pair for what to replace

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Grafana: Overrriding series with metric named `/var(avail_MB)`: "Panel rendering error '/var(avail_MB)' is not a valid regular expression."

An Icinga2 plugin (written by myself) returns performance data with metrics named /var(avail_MB), /var(total_MB) and similar. Data is forwarded to an InfluxDB with Grafana as Frontend.
I'm using "GROUP BY" "tag(metric)" and "ALIAS BY" "$tag_metric" in a dashboard's panel query.
The metric names are displayed correctly below the graph then.
However when I try to override series by specifying "alias or regex" /var(avail_MB) it does not seem to work, and when going back from panel configuration to dashboard, I get an error message saying "Panel rendering error '/var(avail_MB)' is not a valid regular expression.".
I tried to put a backslash in front of ( and ), but that didn't help.
To make matters worse, the whole graph disappeared, and when trying to open the "Query Inspector", the frontend seems to take forever (Query never appears).
What is the problem, and how could I fix it?
I'm new to Icinga2, Grafana and InfluxDB (I'm just a "user" not administrator of those).
The color change is not applied to the graph.
Here is an example of plugin output:
OK: /var: 3114/5632MB (55.30%), slope is NaN|/var(total_MB)=5631.56MB;;;0 /var(avail_pct)=55.30%;25;5;0;100 /var(avail_MB)=3114.12MB;10;5;0;5632 /var(est_avail_MB)=nanMB;10;5;0;5632
(The "nanMB" was a bug in the plugin that has been fixed already, but that data wasn't from the machine in question.)
The problems seems to be the beginning of the string ("/var").
Grafana seems to treat every string starting with / as regular expression, and it expects any regular expression to start with /, too (it seems).
So the fix was to add a trailing /, and escape the literal / as \/.
Unfortunately this only removes the error message, but doesn't make the override work (match).
It is also required to backslash-escape the parentheses and the slash(es):
Instead of /var(total_MB) you need to write /\/var\(total_MB\).
The original problem has two origins:
The monitoring plugin specification at https://www.monitoring-plugins.org/doc/guidelines.html#AEN201 states: "2. label can contain any characters except the equals sign or single quote (')") states that any character except = and ' is allowed as metric name.
Grafana v6.7.3 proposes the incorrect (i.e.: unescaped) values for "alias or regex".
That is how I had created the problem.

how do duckduckgo spice IA secondary API calls get their parameters?

I have been looking through the spice instant answer source code. Yes, I know it is in maintenance mode, but I am still curious.
The documentation makes it fairly clear that the primary spice to API gets its numerical parameters $1, $2, etc. from the handle function.
My question: should there be secondary API calls included with spice alt_to as, say, in the movie spice IA, where do the numerical parameters to that API call come from?
Note, for instance, the $1 in both the movie_image and cast_image secondary API calls in spice alt_to at the preceding link. I am asking which regex capture returns those instances of $1.
I believe I see how this works now. The flow of information is still a bit murky to me, but at least I see how all of the requisite information is there.
I'll take the cryptocurrency instant answer as an example. The alt_to element in the perl package file at that link has a key named cryptonator. The corresponding .js file constructs a matching endpoint:
var endpoint = "/js/spice/cryptonator/" + from + "/" + to;
Note the general shape of the "remainder" past /js/spice/cryptonator: from/to, where from and to will be two strings.
Back in the perl package the hash alt_to->{cryptonator} has a key from which receives, I think, this remainder from/to. The value corresponding to that key is a regex meant to split up that string into its two constituents:
from => '([^/]+)/([^/]*)'
Applied to from/to, that regex will return $1=from and $2=to. These, then, are the $1 and $2 that go into
to => 'https://api.cryptonator.com/api/full/$1-$2'
in alt_to.
In short:
The to field of alt_to->{blah} receives its numerical parameters by having the from regex operate on the remainder past /js/spice/blah/ of the name of the corresponding endpoint constructed in the relevant .js file.

Gremlin: Is there a way to find the character based on the index of a string?

I have vertex "office" and property "name" on OrientDB. I want to find the offices, by name, where the name does not have a "-" as the third character of the string. I imagine this would require some java code within the gremlin query.This is my best attempt, but it is resulting in office names that do in fact have a "-" as their third character.
g.V().hasLabel('office')
.where(values('name').map{it.get().charAt(2)}.is(neq('-')))
.project('Office Name')
.by(values('name'))
Since Gremlin doesn't support String operations (like split, charAt, etc.), your only chance is a lambda. Seems like you figured that out already, but your solution looks too overcomplicated to me. You can use something much simpler, like:
g.V().hasLabel('office').
has('name', filter {it.get()[2] != '-'}).
project('Office Name').
by('name')
However, note, that this filter will throw an exception if the office namer has less than 3 characters. Thus, you should better check that the String is long enough:
g.V().hasLabel('office').
has('name', filter {it.get().length() > 2 && it.get()[2] != '-'}).
project('Office Name').
by('name')
...or use RegEx pattern matching (which is pretty nice and easy in Groovy):
g.V().hasLabel('office').
has('name', filter {it.get() ==~ /.{2}-.*/}).
project('Office Name').
by('name')
The main reason why your traversal didn't work though, is that charAt returns a Character which is then compared to the String -, hence every office name will pass the neq filter.

Making custom primary key for access tables

I am looking for a way to make custom primary keys for access tables. What I am looking to do is to make something like 'C01234'. The alphabet at the start has some purpose and hence has to be there.
I know there is a way to use an autonumbered PK field and make a custom field using DMax function. Something like this: Custom primary key for MS Access. But what I am looking for is to not use another field and generate the alpha numeric PK completely using code.
Is it possible using the Access macro? Is there any other way of doing this ?
If you use a form, then use the BeforeInsert event:
Dim Prefix As String
Dim Digits As Integer
Prefix = "C"
Digits = 5
Me!CustomID.Value = Prefix & Right(String(Digits, "0") & CStr(Val(Right(DMax("CustomID", "YourTable", "CustomID Like '" & Prefix & "*'"), Digits)) + 1), Digits)

Treeline.io sanitize inputs

I have just started investigating into treeline.io beta, so, I could not find any way in the existing machinepacks that would do the job(sanitizing user inputs). Wondering if i can do it in anyway, best if within treeline.
Treeline automatically does type-checking on all incoming request parameters. If you create a route POST /foo with parameter age and give it 123 as an example, it will automatically display an error message if you try to post to /foo with age set to abc, because it's not a number.
As far as more complex validation, you can certainly do it in Treeline--just add more machines to the beginning of your route. The if machine works well for simple tasks; for example, to ensure that age is < 150, you can use if and set the left-hand value to the age parameter, the right-hand value to 150, and the comparison to "<". For more custom validations you can create your own machine using the built-in editor and add pass and fail exits like the if machine has!
The schema-inspector machinepack allow you to sanitize and validate the inputs in Treeline: machinepack-schemainspector
Here a screenshot how I'm using it in my Treeline project:
The content of the Sanitize element:
The content of the Validate element (using the Sanitize output):
For the next parts, I'm always using the Sanitize output (email trimmed and in lowercase for this example).