On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > 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?
At this exact moment, I am looking at AliasMatch and ScriptAliasMatch. However, a pretty large number of modules have a SomethingMatch directive which accepts a regex as an argument. BrowserMatch FilesMatch LocationMatch DirectoryMatch and so on. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Author - Apache Server Unleashed - http://www.apacheunleashed.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
