That doesn't work, it prevents the string, HOST=%"^pan$" or HOST="%^pan$" both prevent 'pan' from being matched.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Larry Barber<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/07,
<b class="gmail_sendername">Gore, David W (David)</b> <<a href="mailto:david.gore@verizonbusiness.com">david.gore@verizonbusiness.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2"><span>As it has been pointed out before somethings require
double quotes ". If that works, then this would be one of those
cases. All our regexes are typically in double quotes.</span></font></div>
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<p><font size="2">David</font></p><br>
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<font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> Larry Barber [mailto:<a href="mailto:lebarber@gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">lebarber@gmail.com</a>]
<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 17, 2007 18:34<br><b>To:</b>
<a href="mailto:hobbit@hswn.dk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">hobbit@hswn.dk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [hobbit] hobbit-alerts
question<br></font><br></div><div><span class="e" id="q_1129b574508e6e8e_1">
<div></div>That's what I think.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Larry Barber<br><br>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Steve
Holmes</b> <<a href="mailto:sholmes42@mac.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">sholmes42@mac.com</a>>
wrote: </span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hang
on there! Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the point is that the $
should anchor the end of the string and it should never match pandora.
Right? <br>Steve.<br><br><br>
<div><span><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/17/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rick Ridgeway</b> <<a href="mailto:ridgeway@nyroc.rr.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">ridgeway@nyroc.rr.com
</a>> wrote:</span></span>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">HOST=%^pan$<br>or<br>HOST=pan<br><br><br>Hope
that helps<br><br><br>Larry Barber wrote:<br>> I am having a problem
with alerts going to the wrong people. I have a<br>> line in
hobbit-alerts.cfg:<br>><br>> HOST=%pan$ <br>><br>> (this is
just for demo and test purposes, I know that particular entry<br>>
doesn't make a lot of sense ) The problem is that this line is
matching<br>> with a host name "pandora". Is there any way to stop
this? <br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Larry Barber<br><br>To unsubscribe
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