[hobbit] msgs - Multiple ignore patterns

[Steve Holmes]

Thanks, Craig. I'm going to try this trick. But even single words aren't
working reliably for me.
Steve Holmes


On 5/24/07, Dominique Frise <Dominique.Frise at unil.ch> wrote:
>
> Craig Cook wrote:
> > While we are asking questions about the pcre handling...
> >
> > Has anyone managed to use a rule with spaces?
> >
> > ie.
> >
> > LOG /var/log/syslog "%disk full" COLOR=red
> >
> > I have tried using quotes, escaping quotes, escaping spaces,
> etc.  Nothing has worked.  Reduced to individual words to get something
> working.
> >
> >
> > Craig Cook
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> Spaces should work but we use \s to represent spaces.
>
> Example:
>
> LOG /var/adm/messages.da
> %(?-i)Fail|fail|On\sbattery|AC\sline\sfault|Replace\sbattery|Battery\snot
> COLOR=yellow
>
> The (?-i) tells pcre to turn case-sensitive pattern matching on.
>
>
> Dominique
> UNIL - University of Lausanne
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