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From: "Andrey Simonenko" <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>
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Subject: Re: Regex Database Help?
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:05:30 +0300
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net>
Newsgroups: lucky.freebsd.questions
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2002 10:03 PM
Subject: Regex Database Help?


> # Allow somehost.some.domain
> /^somehost\.some\.domain$/    OK
> 
> This works fine.  Now what I would like to do is something like this:
> 
> # Allow allhosts.some.domain
> /*\.some\.domain$/    OK
> 
> In other words, allow all hosts that end in some.domain.  However, I
> have tried this different ways without success.  I assume this is
> possible?  Can someone help me get the syntax right for this regular
> expression.  From what I know, I would expect the above to work but it
> doesn't.
> 

If it is a POSIX RE, then you should write:

/\.some\.domain$/    OK
or /.*\.some\.domain$/    OK
or /^.*\.some\.domain$/    OK



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