On Fri, 2013-02-08 at 13:26 -0600, Mike Grau wrote:
> Hello folks.
>
> In 20_body_tests.cf (SA 3.3.2) there is this rule:
>
> body TRACKER_ID /^[a-z0-9]{6,24}[-_a-z0-9]{12,36}[a-z0-9{6,24}\s*\z/is
>
> What is the "\z" in the regex?
>
According to the O'Reilly Camel Book, "Programming Perl", \z matches the
last character in a string but offers no additional help. Many
DOS/Windows programs use ^z as the last character in a file, so I wonder
if its there to make sure that it can match the last line in a non-MIME
message body that doesn't have a newline as its final character and is
more than 24 and less than 75 characters long.
> This rule matches "000000000000000000000000000000000000". Is that as
> intended?
>
It certainly looks like it, since the only non-alphanumeric character it
will match are '-' and '_' provided they are more than 6 and less than
24 characters from each end of a line.
I'd certainly like to know what 'tracker' produces strings like that,
though.
Martin
