On Tue, 14 Nov 2006, Phil Pennock wrote:
>
> You might instead try using readfile's ability to replace newlines and
> have something like:
>
> regex = <; (?i)${readfile{FILENAME}{;(?i)}}
>
TYVM! (I forgot all about replacing the delimiter)
> which assumes that you won't use semi-colons in your regexes. The idea
> is to separate the contents of each line with a list-separator and the
> PCRE caseless-option setting, together with an instance of that before
> the first item. Might be problematic if the last (?i) with nothing
> after it causes problems.
... and it was ;)
>
To take care of the last (?i), I ended up doing a `ps ajx | md5sum`, and
tacked the result on the end, so your example would then become:
regex = <; (?i)${readfile{FILENAME}{;(?i)}}bb58cdde19799e822b9ee3117da89e28
> readfile doesn't expand the string and I don't recall off-hand how that
> interacts with the string-list stuff. You might need to use
> ${expand{...}} too, in which case knowing about \N in regexes and using
> a couple in the eol-replacement string might be helpful.
>
Haven't needed to add anything else yet.
Thanks again,
Dave
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