Tore Anderson wrote:
> I've been trying to make sure no unescaped ';' finds its way into one of
> my configuration variables. I tried to use the ${sg} operator to run
> this regular expression on the string: s/\\*;/\\;/g
>
> This works as I'd like it to with regular perl:
>
> $ echo 'foo;bar\;baz\\;zot\\\;biff\\\\;bing' | perl -pe 's/\\*;/\\;/g'
> foo\;bar\;baz\;zot\;biff\;bing
>
> ..but not with exim (tested with both 3.25 and 4.11):
>
> $ exim -be '${sg{foo;bar\;baz\\;zot\\\;biff\\\\;bing}{\\*;}{\\;}}'
> foo;bar;baz\;zot\;biff\\;bing
>
> Am I doing something blantantly erroneous here, is there some
> incompability with perl's regular expression that isn't mentioned in
> the Exim Specification, or is it simply a bug?
I don't know what you want to do, but maybe the use of ${quote:} or
${rxquote:} would be better
