From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 14 21:22:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E44C8106566C for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:22:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from email1.allantgroup.com (email1.emsphone.com [199.67.51.115]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493788FC19 for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:22:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by email1.allantgroup.com (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id o0ELMEjj079130 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:22:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (smmsp@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o0ELMEYl061181 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:22:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.14.4/8.14.3/Submit) id o0ELMEOb061179 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:22:14 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:22:13 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20100114212213.GC5651@dan.emsphone.com> References: <866374fs5q.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.95.3 at email1.allantgroup.com X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (email1.allantgroup.com [199.67.51.78]); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:22:14 -0600 (CST) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.45 Subject: Re: Regular Expression Editor X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:22:16 -0000 In the last episode (Jan 14), Carmel said: > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:38:41 -0800 > Randal L. Schwartz replied: > > >You need to be specific about the kind of regex. While most regexp > >engines have common things like . and * and ^ and $, the meanings may > >vary a bit, and the more exotic things are certainly going to vary. > > > >(For example, despite the name, "Perl Compatible [sic] Regular > >Expressions" are *not* Perl compatible.) > > > >What tool are you using your regexes with? > > OK, I was using RegExp Buddy on a Windows > machine. I would like to find something similar to it for a FreeBSD > environment. The expressions I create are used primarily with 'sieve' in > conjunction with Dovecot. I am also thinking of possibly creating a few > for use with Postfix. Have you tried running regexbuddy under Wine? For a small program like that it should work pretty well. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com