Ivan Buttinoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Again I send a suggestion, this time quite easy. I hope it's not > allready implemented, else I'm sorry in advance. It will be nice if > wget can use the regexp to evaluate what accept/refuse to download. > The regexp have to work on whole URL and/or filename and/or hostname > and/or CGI argument. Sometime I found the apache directory sorting > links that are unusefull, eg: > .../?N=A > .../?M=D > > Here follows an hipotesis for the above example: > wget -r -l0 --reg-exclude '[A-Z]=[AD]$' http://....
The problem with regexps is that their use would make Wget dependent on a regexp library. To make matters worse, regexp libraries come in all shapes and sizes, with incompatible APIs and implementing incompatible dialects of regexps. I'm staying away from regexps as long as I possibly can.
