On Friday 05 of October 2012 10:34:04 erik quanstrom wrote:
> > however, i thought of a really sneaky cheat, that is almost correct. 
> > since
> > \n is 0a, and we almost never see 09 or 0b (ht and vt), we could build a
> > sneaky character class to elude the parser:
> > 
> > data        matches 'error[ -]'
> > plumb       start   window
> 
> i didn't think hard enough about mailers mangling this.  what i had was
> 
> data  matches 'error[0x09-0x11]
> 
> of course, replace 0x09 and 0x11 with their literal codepoints.

it's succinct, it works and yes, it went through correctly :D


another possible way -- separate verb for multiline match.


meta -- is it ok to send Git patches as an attachment?


cheers,
-- 
dexen deVries

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commit fb99b4872ee3252bea88cf1f187c6cbedeba085b
Author: dexen deVries <[email protected]>
Date:   Fri Oct 5 16:45:19 2012 +0200

    usability: provide multiline matching in plumber

diff --git a/src/cmd/plumb/match.c b/src/cmd/plumb/match.c
index 5a4cd88..0dcc664 100644
--- a/src/cmd/plumb/match.c
+++ b/src/cmd/plumb/match.c
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ matchpat(Plumbmsg *m, Exec *e, Rule *r)
 	case VIsfile:
 		return verbisfile(r->obj, m, r, e, ~DMDIR, DMDIR, &e->file);
 	case VMatches:
+	case VMatchesMultiline:
 		return verbmatches(r->obj, m, r, e);
 	case VSet:
 		verbset(r->obj, m, r, e);
diff --git a/src/cmd/plumb/plumber.h b/src/cmd/plumb/plumber.h
index c8f3081..cd00680 100644
--- a/src/cmd/plumb/plumber.h
+++ b/src/cmd/plumb/plumber.h
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ enum
 	VIsdir,
 	VIsfile,
 	VMatches,
+	VMatchesMultiline,
 	VSet,
 	VStart,
 	VTo
diff --git a/src/cmd/plumb/rules.c b/src/cmd/plumb/rules.c
index 4da4bb2..d815db9 100644
--- a/src/cmd/plumb/rules.c
+++ b/src/cmd/plumb/rules.c
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ char *verbs[] =
 	"isdir",
 	"isfile",
 	"matches",
+	"matchesmultiline",
 	"set",
 	"start",
 	"to",
@@ -363,6 +364,10 @@ parserule(Rule *r)
 			r->regex = regcomp(r->qarg);
 			return;
 		}
+		if(r->verb == VMatchesMultiline){
+			r->regex = regcompnl(r->qarg);
+			return;
+		}
 		break;
 	case OPlumb:
 		if(r->verb!=VClient && r->verb!=VStart && r->verb!=VTo)

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