cont check regex problems
list Kimberly McKinnis
I'm not clear what I'm doing wrong in my cont check in bb-hosts, and I
was hoping someone could help me out. My regular expression works fine
in perl: perl -e '$text = join "", <>; if ($text =~
/assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}"/) { print "OK\n"; } else { print "NotOK\n"; }'
< /tmp/vodbrowser.php
However, bb-hosts line fails on the regex check: 10.100.104.53
seachange-vod # testip
cont=vod;http://mrteeny/vod/vodbrowser.php;assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}";
It *is* a webpage I'm trying to match... so the page starts with:
<html>
<head>
<title>VOD Interface</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor=white>
<h3 align=center>Vod Interface</h3>
<pre>
assetID="00080002"
However, I really only care if the assetID is being displayed. Any
suggestions?
list Kimberly McKinnis
Hmm. Hobbit seems to have not liked the digit range.
Using assetID="[0-9abcdefABCDEF]{8}" is working. I'm not clear *why*
Hobbit didn't like my digit range when perl did, and I'm curious to
figure it out, but for now I'm happy that my check works.
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From: Kimberly McKinnis [mailto:user-9a37612a7e34@xymon.invalid] Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 4:25 PM To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid Subject: [hobbit] cont check regex problems I'm not clear what I'm doing wrong in my cont check in bb-hosts, and I was hoping someone could help me out. My regular expression works fine in perl: perl -e '$text = join "", <>; if ($text =~ /assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}"/) { print "OK\n"; } else { print "NotOK\n"; }' < /tmp/vodbrowser.php However, bb-hosts line fails on the regex check: 10.100.104.53 seachange-vod # testip cont=vod;http://mrteeny/vod/vodbrowser.php;assetID="[0-9A-Fa-f]{8}"; It *is* a webpage I'm trying to match... so the page starts with: <html> <head> <title>VOD Interface</title> </head> <body bgcolor=white> <h3 align=center>Vod Interface</h3> <pre> assetID="00080002" However, I really only care if the assetID is being displayed. Any suggestions?
list Simeon Berkley
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Kimberly McKinnis wrote:
Hmm. Hobbit seems to have not liked the digit range.
Using assetID="[0-9abcdefABCDEF]{8}" is working. I’m not clear **why** Hobbit didn’t like my digit range when perl did, and I’m curious to figure it out, but for now I’m happy that my check works.
A handy tool for checking Perl-compatible regexes is pcretest, which is a more direct way of checking since it uses libpcre like hobbit does. -- S i m e o n B e r k l e y Systems Engineer Mcclatchy Interactive
list Kimberly McKinnis
Thank you much!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Simeon Berkley [mailto:user-7650b51cc6e3@xymon.invalid] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 7:07 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: Re: [hobbit] cont check regex problems
Kimberly McKinnis wrote:Hmm. Hobbit seems to have not liked the digit range.
Using assetID="[0-9abcdefABCDEF]{8}" is working. I'm not clear **why**Hobbit didn't like my digit range when perl did, and I'm curious to figure it out, but for now I'm happy that my check works.
A handy tool for checking Perl-compatible regexes is pcretest, which is a more direct way of checking since it uses libpcre like hobbit does. -- S i m e o n B e r k l e y Systems Engineer Mcclatchy Interactive