Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-24 Thread Rich Bowen
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Joshua Slive wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > It would be nice to have at least a pointer to a regular expression > > tutorial, and perhaps a description of some kind in the docs > > themselves about what type of regular expressions these are, what > > t

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-24 Thread Joshua Slive
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > It would be nice to have at least a pointer to a regular expression > tutorial, and perhaps a description of some kind in the docs > themselves about what type of regular expressions these are, what > things are permitted in them, and how to do things like

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
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. > >

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Cliff Woolley
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > case-insensitive patterns, With pcre, you should be able to put (?i) at the beginning of the pattern (see perlre manpage). Not sure if hsregex supports that. > character classes, Those are fine... just the usual [abcde] syntax. > variable capture (the

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
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

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:43:58PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > > Is there any treatment, anywhere in the Apache documentation, of what > > flavor of regular expressions are supported by Apache directives? I > > can't find it, but perhaps I'm just overlook

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Cliff Woolley
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'

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Thomas Eibner
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 th

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Thomas Eibner wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:59:27PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > > > Is there any treatment, anywhere in the Apache documentation, of what > > > flavor of regular expressions are supported by Apache directives?

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Thomas Eibner
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:43:58PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > Is there any treatment, anywhere in the Apache documentation, of what > flavor of regular expressions are supported by Apache directives? I > can't find it, but perhaps I'm just overlooking it, and will find it > as soon as I send this.

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Thomas Eibner
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:59:27PM -0400, Rich Bowen wrote: > On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > > > Is there any treatment, anywhere in the Apache documentation, of what > > flavor of regular expressions are supported by Apache directives? I > > can't find it, but perhaps I'm just overlooki

Re: Regular Expressions

2001-08-23 Thread Rich Bowen
On Wed, 22 Aug 2001, Rich Bowen wrote: > Is there any treatment, anywhere in the Apache documentation, of what > flavor of regular expressions are supported by Apache directives? I > can't find it, but perhaps I'm just overlooking it, and will find it > as soon as I send this. OK, so immediately