In my Ruby app I have the following regex that helps me with removing sensitive informations from logs:
/(\\"|")secure[^:]+:\s*\1.*?\1/
It works when in logs are the following information:
{"secure_data": "Test"}
but when instead of string I have object in logs it does not work:
{"secure_data": {"name": "Test"}}
How can I update regex to work with both scenarios?
You may use this regex with negated character classes and an alternation:
"secure[^:]+:\s*(?:"[^"]*"|{[^}]*})
Inside non-capturing group (?:"[^"]*"|{[^}]*}) we are matching a quoted string or an object that starts with { and ends with }.