[hobbit] PCRE Assistance

[Asif Iqbal]

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Ryan Novosielski <novosirj at umdnj.edu> wrote:
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> I'm feeling rather dopey at not being able to figure this out, but bear
> with me.
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> I'm trying to define a regex that will match, among other things, a line
> that begins with: netmon- and any number of characters that follow it,
> and then ends with my domain name. The two I need it to match right now
> are: "netmon-int.umdnj.edu" and "netmon-ext.umdnj.edu" but there may be
> others going forward.

this should catch it

%netmon-.*


>
> Here is my example:
>
> %(bbdisplay|xymon|katahdin|^netmon-*).umdnj.edu
>
> I was suspicious of the ^, so I tried removing it -- no change. So far
> I've tried this list of things:
>
> %(bbdisplay|xymon|katahdin|netmon-*).umdnj.edu
> %(bbdisplay|xymon|katahdin|^netmon\-*).umdnj.edu
> %(bbdisplay|xymon|katahdin|netmon\-*).umdnj.edu
>
> ...maybe one or two others. When I try either of the two hostnames I'm
> trying to match with pcretest, I get "No match". Can anyone point me in
> the right direction? It's surely something simple.
>
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Asif Iqbal
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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