On 04/08/2013 07:41 AM, Mr Dash Four wrote:
>
>> I don't know much about perl (as you know), but is there a notion for
>> a "quoted string" in it? In other words, only consider spaces if they
>> are not quoted (allowing for escaping, in other words "something
>> else", as well as "\"and so on"). If there isn't such functionality
>> built-in, then you can devise it as a separate function so that every
>> bit of "string" during the parsing process is passed through that
>> function first and then you can break it into tokens. At least that is
>> how I will do it in C.
> Alternatively (if the above is a bit difficult to do), you may consider
> the following, which may be less difficult to process:
>
> INLINE <src> <dst> # -m <match 1> -m <match 2> ... -j ACCEPT
>
> That way, you just parse the src and dst to determine the chain in which
> to insert the inline statement ('src' or 'dst' should not contain
> anything other that a zone, mind!) and then take whatever is after the
> '#' character and include it after the '-A <chain>' statement. Would
> that be easier?I was thinking about that as well, and it would indeed be easier. How about this: ACCEPT <src> <dst> ; MATCH -m <match 1> -m <match 2> ... The preprocessor already looks for ';' and the MATCH keyword would trigger the new interpretation of the text that follows. I would prefer to keep the rule target (the '-j ...' part) in the ACTION column if possible. -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ When I die, I want to go like my Grandfather who Shoreline, \ died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like Washington, USA \ all of the passengers in his car http://shorewall.net \________________________________________________
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