Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:24:49 -0500 From: Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regular Expression Editor Message-ID: <BLU0-SMTP78C48F3BB9D14DBAF3C88B936A0@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <866374fs5q.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com> References: <BLU0-SMTP87607E292253E8D30ADD68936A0@phx.gbl> <866374fs5q.fsf@blue.stonehenge.com>
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On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:38:41 -0800 Randal L. Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com> replied: >You need to be specific about the kind of regex. While most regexp >engines have common things like . and * and ^ and $, the meanings may >vary a bit, and the more exotic things are certainly going to vary. > >(For example, despite the name, "Perl Compatible [sic] Regular >Expressions" are *not* Perl compatible.) > >What tool are you using your regexes with? OK, I was using RegExp Buddy <http://www.regexbuddy.com/>; on a Windows machine. I would like to find something similar to it for a FreeBSD environment. The expressions I create are used primarily with 'sieve' in conjunction with Dovecot. I am also thinking of possibly creating a few for use with Postfix. -- Jerry gesbbb@yahoo.com |::::======= |::::======= |=========== |=========== | Do not try to solve all life's problems at once -- learn to dread each day as it comes. Donald Kaul
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