On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, da...@lang.hm wrote: > On Sun, 4 Nov 2012, Risto Vaarandi wrote: > >> 2012/10/20 <da...@lang.hm>: >>> On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, Risto Vaarandi wrote: >>> >> hi David, >> I have completed some work on the alpha version of the next release, >> and it supports returning hashes from PerlFunc patterns. If the user >> defines a custom parsing scheme inside PerlFunc pattern, keyword=value >> pairs can now be returned as named match variables with a single hash. >> However, there are still few things I'd like to clarify. Perl regexp >> named captures assume that a name consist of alphanumerals and >> underscores (i.e., each name character must match \w) which is also >> the case for LumberJack. Nevertheless, Perl also assumes that named >> capture never begins with a number. Does LumberJack impose a similar >> restriction? This restriction allows for one nice optimization -- >> internally, named and numbered match variables can be stored in one >> hash table (for the latter, numbers are used as keywords). >> As a separator, I think it is quite easy to allow the use of ! inside >> variable names. > > Lumberjack hasn't specified this, but since this is a very common limitation > for variable names, I think it's a very reasonable thing to do. > > Nothing that Lumberjack has specified would violate this. > > I'll post to that list?
The initial reaction I'm gettig back is that this wasn't discussed, but they have are very strongly in favor of prohibiting leading numbers in field names. David Lang ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LogMeIn Central: Instant, anywhere, Remote PC access and management. Stay in control, update software, and manage PCs from one command center Diagnose problems and improve visibility into emerging IT issues Automate, monitor and manage. Do more in less time with Central http://p.sf.net/sfu/logmein12331_d2d _______________________________________________ Simple-evcorr-users mailing list Simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/simple-evcorr-users
