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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I’m not clear what I’m doing wrong in my cont check in
bb-hosts, and I was hoping someone could help me out. My regular expression
works fine in perl: perl -e '$text = join "", <>; if ($text =~
/assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}"/) { print "OK\n"; } else { print
"NotOK\n"; }' < /tmp/vodbrowser.php<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'>However, bb-hosts line fails on the regex check: 10.100.104.53
seachange-vod # testip cont=vod;http://mrteeny/vod/vodbrowser.php;assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}"<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>assetID="00080002"<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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