Re: How to use regex in editfiles?

[Volker Wiegand]

Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
> [...] Unfortunately, once done it is
> hard to change to a better idea without breaking something for someone.
> One day it would be nice to redesign the editfiles functions.
> [...]
> Some discusssion was given to using the perl regex library a while ago, which
> is tempting, but then everything is broken again for every cfengine user
> around the world :(
A possible way out of this dilemma might be a "second set" of editing 
functions. When I was still programming MS Windows, I sometimes used 
functions like CreateWindowExEx :-)

Volker