Stephen Turner wrote:
> Peter Love wrote:
> >
> > In this case I can split it into 5 separate REGEXPs, but others might
> > come up in the future. In the future, could the whole REGEXP be
> > enclosed in quotes or something like that?
> >
>
> And Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
> > How about enclosing it in slashes, a la` Perl. Instead of
> >
> > USERINCLUDE REGEXP:sret\d,pklove
> >
> > use
> >
> > USERINCLUDE /sret\d/,/pklove/
>
> I agree something needs to be done. So let's think what.
>
> First, slashes are definitely out. Consider
> FILEINCLUDE /~sret1/
> I suppose
> FILEINCLUDE REGEXP:/~sret1/
> would work, but it still doesn't mean what you expect it to mean.
Good point. As with Perl, you'd end up having to use a lot of escape
characters.
> Quotes seem better. It is theoretically possible that a REGEXP might
> genuinely begin with a quote, which would mess things up. But it doesn't
> seem all that likely. Less likely than wanting a comma, anyway. :)
Or you couls allow any delimiter (somewhat like the rest of the configuration
command) as long as the end delimiter matches (or compliments) the start one:
USERINCLUDE "user\d","sret\d"
USERINCLUDE {user\d},{sret\d}
USERINCLUDE #user\d#,#sret\d#
or
USERINCLUDE REGEXP:"user\d","sret\d"
USERINCLUDE REGEXP:{user\d},{sret\d}
USERINCLUDE REGEXP:#user\d#,#sret\d#
> Another option, which would be completely unambiguous, would be to require
> REGEXP:s to continue to the end of the line. So
> USERINCLUDE REGEXP:user\d,REGEXP:sret\d
> would then have to be spelled out as
> USERINCLUDE REGEXP:user\d
> USERINCLUDE REGEXP:sret\d
>
> Anyone have any views on which solution is best -- or another better
> solution?
I thought about this, but that would make me think that you could combine
REGEXP and non-REGEXP on a single line, thus:
USERINCLUDE REGEXP:sret\d,pklove
(with the second being a standard match), which brings you back to the
original problem. Of course the docs could explicitly state that a line must
contain all REGEXP or all non-REGEXP commands, but nobody reads documentation.
:-)
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Digital Group
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