[rules-dev] doubt in the rules

Hello everyone, The rules I wrote are rule "Test 1 Rule" salience 1000 when Line ( $admin : line) eval ( $admin.matches("^.*@\\S*[#>]\\s*show\\s+interface[s]*\\s*$")) Line ( $lineSecond : line) eval ( $lineSecond.matches("^\\s*(\\S+)\\s+is\\s+(up|down|administratively down),\\s*line\\s+protocol\\s+is\\s+(up|down)\\s*$")) device : Device() then System.out.println("********************************************"); device.setVendorType("Foundry"); end rule "Juniper Show Interface CanIParse() Rule" salience 5000 when Line ( $regex : line) eval ( $regex.matches("^.*@\\S*[#>]\\s*show\\s+interface[s]*\\s*$")) Line ( $lineStr : line) eval ( $lineStr.matches("^.*\\s*Physical\\s+interface:\\s*([^,\\s]+),\\s+([^,]+),.*$")) device : Device() then System.out.println ("^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"); device.setVendorType("Juniper"); end Basically the rules are searching for two regular expressions, of which one is same for the both of the rules.But when i write the rules like the above I do not get the correct o/p, but however if i change my rules to (bold) as below, I get the correct output.So is it necessary the the declaration has to be same if the both the rules have same regex rule "Test 1 Rule" salience 1000 when Line ( $regex : line) eval ( $regex.matches("^.*@\\S*[#>]\\s*show\\s+interface[s]*\\s*$")) Line ( $lineSecond : line) eval ( $lineSecond.matches("^\\s*(\\S+)\\s+is\\s+(up|down|administratively down),\\s*line\\s+protocol\\s+is\\s+(up|down)\\s*$")) device : Device() then System.out.println("********************************************"); device.setVendorType("Foundry"); end rule "Juniper Show Interface CanIParse() Rule" salience 5000 when Line ( $regex : line) eval ( $regex.matches("^.*@\\S*[#>]\\s*show\\s+interface[s]*\\s*$")) Line ( $lineStr : line) eval ( $lineStr.matches("^.*\\s*Physical\\s+interface:\\s*([^,\\s]+),\\s+([^,]+),.*$")) device : Device() then System.out.println ("^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^"); device.setVendorType("Juniper"); end Thanks Shiva