Re: RegEx help

[Edward F. Brown]

Looking at src/functions.c to try to understand why the 'split' character
would matter with respect to the regex that is passed to RegCmp, it
doesn't look like it happens within the function:

void HandleRegCmp(char *args,char *value)
...
list = SplitStringAsItemList(argv[1],LISTSEPARATOR);
ret = LocateNextItemMatching(list,argv[0]);

Why is the match affected if a character in the regex is the split
character?  Should it be regarded as a bug?

-Ed



On Fri, November 25, 2005 10:52 am, Atom Powers said:
> Thank you, that's exactly what it was.
> But setting it as a space character won't work either, unless I change
> the user description.
> control:
>   Split=(";")
>
> On 11/23/05, Edward F. Brown <ebrown@lanl.gov> wrote:
>> On Wed, November 23, 2005 11:52 am, Atom Powers said:
>> > I'm trying to check a user account and send an allert if it's changed.
>> > But I'm having trouble with my RegEx; it's not matching the way it
>> > should.
>>
>> Cfengine seems to be regarding those colons as a special character, its
>> own field delimiter, or 'Split' character.  Try setting the value of
>> 'Split' to something else:
>>
>> control:
>>   Split = ( " " )
>>
>> -Ed
>>
>
>
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