Tips for testing textfilecontent54_object pattern match.

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Hello all,

I am writing some customized rules with Compliance As Code. While we are provided with excellent testing possibilities ( container to test rules, regexify_banner.py, ... , I still find it very time consuming testing OVAL regex.

According to https://oval.mitre.org/language/about/re_support_5.6.html , the regex is based on Perl 5 regex. I would expect in this case I could test my OVAL regex with "grep -P"/ "grep --perl-regexp ". However the behaviour seems not the same to me and it gets even more challenging when trying to match patterns over a multiline.

Anyone has some tips about developing and testing this faster?