Ive been trying to parse an ascii net stream using pcre with no luck.
Simulation on pcretest and using perl works. I just wanna do this using
C.
The expression starts with "E: " followed by several
constructs each terminated with crlf. There are several lines contained
within a block. Each block is terminated with crlfcrlf.
It is possible there could be more than one block in the network stream;
i would like to capture just the first one (i.e the shortest match).
As an example, heres a simple test with pcretest which works (I get what
i need in the vector "2:"
Iam trying this on a debian etch system; so i didnt build the library
myself.
Heres how the build looks like:
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hadi@lilsol:~/junk$ pcretest -C
PCRE version 6.7.7.4 2008-02-18
Compiled with
UTF-8 support
Unicode properties support
Newline sequence is LF
\R matches all Unicode newlines
Internal link size = 2
POSIX malloc threshold = 10
Default match limit = 10000000
Default recursion depth limit = 10000000
Match recursion uses stack
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The manual says to simulate /s i need to turn on PCRE_DOTALL when
i compile a pattern. Thats the only thing i have added to the options
of pcre_compile("(^: (.*?)(\r\n\r\n))"); i didnt touch pcre_exec().
It doesnt work. Heres a sample incoming stream (shown above in
pcretest):
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E: e1\r\nA: a1\r\nB: b1\r\n\r\nCRAP: c1
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What i end up matching in the ovectors by number.....
