On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Gabriele Bartolini wrote:
> Ciao Stephen and analog's users,
>
> probably I'm a bit dumb, but I can't understand whether analog does
> case sensitive or insensitive match with exclusions and inclusions. I
> haven't been able to find something on the documentation, and also in the
> FAQ and the archive.
>
> For example, I have noticed that HOSTEXCLUDE performs a case
> insensitive match, but BROWEXCLUDE don't. Am I wrong with this? Do
> exclusions and inclusions work differenlly according to their scope?
>
Yes. Hosts are case insensitive, browsers aren't necessarily, so the
inclusion/exclusion respects that. Local filenames vary according to the
setting of the CASE command.
> I guess that in order to have full control I should use regular
> expressions
>
Yes, you can always specify a case-insensitive match with a regexp. Although
analog won't let you specify a case-sensitive match for a hostname: even in
a regexp it converts it to case-insensitive.
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