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Re: [leafnode-list] Format of filterfile entries?
* David Marsh (dm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) [1999-09-17 20:25]:
> ^ ties the search to the start of the line
> *. matches any number of any character (?)
matches any character
* matches any (including zero) occurrences of the preceding pattern,
thus, you want .*
+ matches any number of occurrences but AT LEAST ONE of the preceding
pattern.
t+ thus matches t or ttttttttt
> \. escapes the '.' because it's a special character in a regexp(?)
>
>
> Is my rule correct?
You will probably want to go for Newsgroups:.*uk\.misc.*
> If there were a newsgroup uk.misc.boring (for example), would the above
> rule also match that group? If I didn't want the rule to also match
> uk.misc.boring, how would I exclude it from the rule?
That's quite difficult. Don't know.
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Pointers to simple sites explaining how regexps work would also be
> appreciated.
man 7 pcre
man perlre
Any book on perl regular expressions.
book "Mastering Regular Expressions" (published by O'Reilly)
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