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[leafnode-list] Re: leafnode 2 not creating "all_links" in gmane hierarchy.
Am 10.05.2011 14:45, schrieb Adam Funk:
> On 2011-05-09, clemens fischer wrote:
>
>> On Mon-2011/05/09-19:01 Christian Ebert wrote:
>>
>>> * clemens fischer on Monday, May 09, 2011 at 16:26:38 +0200
>>>> On Mon-2011/05/09-14:38 Adam Funk wrote:
>>>>>>> #v+
>>>>>>> server = news.gmane.org
>>>>>>> only_groups_pcre = (gmane\.|control\.)
>>>>>>> #v-
>>>>
>>>> This doesn't bear on your problem, but why isn't this:
>>>>
>>>> only_groups_pcre = ^(gmane\.|control\.)
>>>
>>> Because man leafnode says you do not need to anchor this pcre?
>>>
>>> only_groups_pcre = PCRE
>>> This parameter lists the Perl-compatible regular
>>> expression of groups that are fetched or posted to this
>>> server. The PCRE is automatically anchored at the left hand
>>> side, so you can omit the leading ^. Remember to
>>> escape dots, as in: de\.comp\.|de\.comm\. Another example
>>> might be only_groups_pcre=de\.(?!alt) that fetches all de.*
>>> groups that are not de.alt.* groups. Consult the PCRE
>>> documentation for details.
>>
>> Oopsie. I forgot about this.
>
> Well, I put the caret in yesterday anyway. It looks nice & my other
> only_groups_pcre rules have it.
It doesn't hurt if you do that. But you need to pay some attention when
using alternatives with the pipe ("|") character, since
^alt1|alt2
would normally match alt2 anywhere in the word, not just at the beginning.
^(alt1|alt2) is what many people new to REs mean -- and to avoid such
surprises, I'm anchoring the regexp. De-anchoring can be specified by
.*?, a non-greedy version of .*.
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