On Sep 22, Michael Gale said:
Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
On Sep 22, Michael Gale said:
I have the following line of code and I believe it is correct, but it is
not doing what I am expecting it to do:
Config file
[test]
value=^OK$i
The problem is that '^OK$i' as a string turned into a regex is a regex that
can never match. The '$' is the end-of-string anchor, so there's no way an
'i' can match after it. Were you hoping the '$i' would be expanded to the
current value of the $i variable?
I was hoping that $ would mean the end of the string and "i" would mean case
insensitive :(
To do that, use (?i) instead:
value=(?i)^OK$
Alternatively, you could just write
value=^[Oo][Kk]$
but that gets unwieldy as the regex grows in size...
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