Re: [exim] Is there a regex escape function?

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Author: exim-users
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Is there a regex escape function?
On 03/10/12 16:31, exim-users@??? wrote:

> "By perl style regular expressions" I was referring to PCRE. Yes,
> Perl does variable interpolation before running the regex, but then
> Exim does string expansion before running the regex as well.


Proof of the above:

mike@ung:~$ exim -be '${if
match{4.76}{^\\Q$version_number\\E\$}{true}{false}}'
true
mike@ung:~$ exim -be '${if
match{4X76}{^\\Q$version_number\\E\$}{true}{false}}'
false
mike@ung:~$

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