How to use Customize syntax highlighting on Mobaxterm

Question

in the Mobaxterm Configuration, I clicked on Customize in the Terminal -> Syntax highlighting section. Then, i clicked on "Use regular expressions (experts only)" and added the following regex for "Cyan":

\[.* CEST\]

I expected this to make my timestamps in my log files in Cyan. The timestamps are in this format:

[10/16/20 16:21:35:457 CEST] 

However nothing happens. Can you help me to understand this feature?

Thank you

Answer 1

It's not a full regex, I based it off their built in reg

    [^A-Za-z_&-]\[[0-9][0-9]?\/[0-9][0-9]?\/[0-9][0-9]? [0-9][0-9]?\:[0-9][0-9]?\:[0-9][0-9]?\:[0-9][0-9]?[0-9]? CEST\][^A-Za-z_&-]

I know its 4 month old question but if you need it, this might be helpful.