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Re: [hobbit] Valid alerts decleration?

Henrik Storner wrote:

Feel free to educate me on the finer details of Perl and the way it
does regular expressions - I'm not in any way an expert on that
subject. (I never could get my head twisted enough to figure out what
all the different parenthesis and special chars do in Perl - so
there's another reason why I've tried to make LARRD obsolete).

Trust me, you don't want me teaching anyone perl. I struggle enough on my own. That regex I had in my last email was just to match 3 digits in a row (like a [0-9]). I guess what was confusing to me is the use of ".*" instead of just "*". I think this is an artifact of BB b/c I can remember having some problems many moons ago when I was trying to getting wildcarding to work properly, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Yes, I think you can do without those parentheses. I actually have a
small test tool to try and match names against expressions, and if I
try your expression it works whether I have "(.*)" or just ".*". So

  $HG1=%(pinky|sys.*p).nandomedia.com

should be fine.


You're right, it does. I could swear I tried using something like this before, but even though it was showing up when I ran bbcmd --env=/home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbitserver.cfg hobbitd_alert --dump-config it didn't actually page me. The only time it really started working was after I shut hobbit down completely, then brought it back up. I'm not ruling out a mistake on my part, though. I've been making plenty of them the last week or so.

Release candidate still coming out sometime soon? I'm looking forward to it.


Tom