On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Odhiambo G. Washington wrote:
> While this is unrelated, I am new to regex (newbie) but I do think
> that exiscan needs to have a facility for doing case-insensitive
> matching.
Assuming it is supporting Perl regexes, there already is such a
facility. Start your ACL with (?i) to set the case insensitive flag.
(Or you can use this "locally" within parens in part of an ACL.)
> I tried modifying yours to the following
>
> [^a-z^A-Z][Ss][^a-z^A-Z]*[Ee][^a-z^A-Z]*[Xx][^a-z^A-Z]
>
> ..but it doesn't seem to want to match where there is a space character,
That does look a rather weird regex:
[^a-z^A-Z] matches one character that is not alphabetic and not ^
[Ss] matches one character that is S or s
[^a-z^A-Z]* matches zero or more characters that are not (as above)
etc.
> but anyway I am a beginner..
Read Jeff Friedl's book "Mastering Regular Expressions" (O'Reilly) if
you can get hold of a copy.
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