On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 11:15:12PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > > No, the / character does not have special meaning in these regular > expressions. More specifically, there is no delimiter, as there is in > Perl. You just have a string, and that is the regex. Perl has a > character that indicates the start and end of the pattern. While this > is traditionally / it can be anything. But, since there is no such > character used, you can't put switches like Perl's /i or /s or > whatever on the end after the closing delimiter. > > egrep is the same way (same as apache that is) in that you just > provide a string > > egrep "patt?[eu]rn" file.name > > The quotes are optional if the pattern does not contain any special > characters.
But where excactly are you using/needing this? -- Thomas Eibner <http://thomas.eibner.dk/> DnsZone <http://dnszone.org/> mod_pointer <http://stderr.net/mod_pointer> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
