Re: [hobbit] PCRE reference with examples

[Dan Vande More <bigdan (at) gmail.com>]

You'll probably be better off with:

HOST=^va.*$

(Note the caret instead of the dollar sign.)

-Dan

On 10/13/05, Rich Smrcina <rsmrcina (at) wi.rr.com> wrote:
> Ok, that's great info.  Thanks!
>
> Based on that I'm ending up with an expression like:
>
> HOST=$va[\d\w]*$
>
> To match any host beginning with 'va' that has zero or more alphanumeric
> characters after it.  Is there an easier way to write this?  If not
> that's fine, I just want to make sure I'm using it correctly.
>
> Another poster (Asif Iqbal) posted the MAIL directives with multiple
> recipients.  Does that work like he posted?  Can the multiple email
> recipients be put into a macro?  Consider the following:
>
> $pg-tom=(tomsemail (at) somewhere.com|tomscell (at) wireless.com)
> HOST=tomshost
>         MAIL $pg-tom DURATION=5m COLOR=red
>
> Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 12, 2005 at 10:14:14PM -0500, Rich Smrcina wrote:
> >
> >>Is there an online reference for PCRE available, including examples?
> >>I'm having difficulty setting up alerts and I clearly need help with PCRE.
> >
> >
> > I did a google on "regular expression tutorial" and came up with this:
> >
> > http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html
> >
> > It isn't specific to PCRE, but PCRE implements the regex flavor found
> > in Perl, so it should get you going.
> >
> > Also, for trying out your regexes there's the "pcretest" utility which
> > comes with the PCRE library. It lets you input your regex and try it out
> > against selected candidate strings:
> >
> > henrik (at) osiris:~$ pcretest
> > PCRE version 4.5 01-December-2003
> >
> >   re> /(www|mail|ns).foo.com/
> >   data> ns.foo.com
> >    0: ns.foo.com
> >     1: ns
> >     data> print.foo.com
> >     No match
> >
> >
> > Note that you must put the regex inside slashes when entering it
> > into pcretest (it supports multi-line regexes - Hobbit doesn't).
> >
> >
> > Henrik
> >
> >
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