On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Cliff Woolley wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > Regular expressions have the same syntax as those found in the Unix > > egrep command. > > > > This is, as far as I can find so far, the only specific explanation of > > what regex syntax Apache supports. > > > > FAQ-B states that "We implement a simple subset of Perl's regex > > support" which is pretty darned vague. > > Well, Apache 1.3 comes with hsregex, but you're allowed to use your OS's > regex library if you want. Assuming we're talking about hsregex, you can > find man pages for it in apache-1.3/src/regex (the files regex.3 and > regex.7). Apache 2.0 switched to PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular > Expressions) and IIRC it does not support using the OS regex library at > this time. The name on this one kind of says it all, but you can find > more details at www.pcre.org. Since they're Perl compatible, the best > reference IMO is the perlre manpage.
Yes, thanks. That helps a great deal. -- Rich Bowen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] ReefKnot - http://www.reefknot.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
