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From: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
To: "parv" <parv_@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Regex Database Help? - SOLVED
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 17:46:49 -0800
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----- Original Message -----
From: "parv" <parv_@yahoo.com>
To: "Drew Tomlinson" <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 3:03 PM
Subject: Re: Regex Database Help?


> in message <01f801c1a509$bd1d3060$c42a6ba5@lc.ca.gov>,
> wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly...
> ...
> > # Allow allhosts.some.domain
> > /*\.some\.domain$/    OK
> >
> > In other words, allow all hosts that end in some.domain.  However, I
> > have tried this different ways without success.
> ...
>
> did you try...
>
> /some\.domain$/   OK

Your suggestion works for my example but I really wanted a finer control
as the real servers I were trying to allow started with web, had some
number after web, and then .some.domain.  I learned (from some private
email) that it is a '.', not a '*', that matches everything.  Then I
added the '*' to quantify the match meaning 0 or more previous
characters.  So my final expression looked like this:

/^web.*\.some\.domain$/

Thanks for your help,

Drew


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