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Le mardi 08 mars 2011 à 00:45 +0100, mouss a écrit :
> Le 07/03/2011 15:13, Stan Hoeppner a écrit :
> > Noel Jones put forth on 3/7/2011 7:00 AM:
> >> On 3/7/2011 4:47 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I was taught to always start my expressions with "/^" and end them with
> >>> "$/".  Why did Steven teach me to do this if it's not necessary?
> >>
> >> That's good advice when you're actually matching something.
> > 
> > Ok, so if I'm doing what I've heard called a "fully qualified regular
> > expression", WRT FQrDNS matching, should I use the anchors or not?
> > postmap -q says these all work (the actuals with action and text that is).
> > 
> > /^(\d{1,3}-){3}\d{1,3}\.dynamic\.chello\.sk$/
> 
> .dynamic.chello.sk    REJECT blah blah
> 
> 
> > /^(\d{1,3}\.){4}dsl\.dyn\.forthnet\.gr$/
> 
> .dyn.forthnet.gr      REJECT blah blah
> 
> > /^(\d{1,3}-){4}adsl-dyn\.4u\.com\.gh$/
> /dyn\.4u.com\.gh$/    REJECT blah
> 
> assuming you get real mail from there. otherwise
> .4u.com.gh    REJECT blah
> 
> > /^[\d\w]{8}\.[\w]{2}-[\d]-[\d\w]{2}\.dynamic\.ziggo\.nl$/
> 
> ahem? I fail to see what yoy're trying to match here. \d is a \w, so
> [\d\w] is the same as \w. do you mean \W (capital letter)? anyway:
> 
> .dynamic.ziggo.nl      REJECT blah blah
> 
> > /^(\d{1,3}\.){4}dynamic\.snap\.net\.nz$/
> .dynamic.snap.net.nz  REJECT blah
> 
> > /^pppoe-dyn(-\d{1,3}){4}\.kosnet\.ru$/
> /\Wdyn\W.*\.kosnet\.ru$/      REJECT blah
> 
> > 
> >> The special case of .* means, as you know, "anything or nothing". 
> >> There's never a case where it's necessary to explicitly match a leading
> >> or trailing "anything or nothing".
> > 
> > What of the case where you want to match something in the middle of the
> > input string, with extra junk on both ends?
> 
> well, that's what regular expressions are about by default:
> /foo/ means contains foo
> /^foo/ means starts with foo
> /foo$/ means ends with foo
> 
> so
> /^bart.*homer.*marge$/ means: starts with "bart", ends with "marge" and
> somewhere between these contains "homer".
> 
> 
> > 
> >> Consider:
> >> /^.*foo$/
> >>   match the string beginning with anything or nothing, ending with foo.
> >>
> >> can always be simplified to:
> >> /foo$/
> >>   match the string ending with foo.
> >>
> >> This works the same without the ending $ anchor (contains foo, rather
> >> than ends with foo), but helps the illustration.
> > 
> > So, in my examples above, given we're matching rDNS patterns, are the
> > anchors necessary, or helpful?  If not using them means "contains", then
> > they should still match.  What advantage is there to using the anchors
> > when matching rDNS patterns?  Any?
> > 
> >> (In the other special case where you're using $1, $2, etc. substitution
> >> in the result, you might need some form of /^(.*foo)$/ to fill the
> >> substitution buffer, but that's about substitution, not about matching.)
> > 
> > Thank you for the continuing PCRE education Noel, and Ansgar. :)
> > 
> 
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