Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-04 Thread Bruce Munro
Adam Carter wrote: Thanks guys. I know ^ and will omit it as the ? Is not at the beginning of the string. I'll try '\?.*(http|https|ftp)://' You can squeeze that up a bit more... \?.*(https?|ftp):// 'https?' means 'http' followed by an optional (0 or 1) 's'. Cheers, -Bruce -- ge

RE: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-04 Thread Adam Carter
> > I just wanted to comment something about Iain's suggestion: > > > > '^\?.*(http|https|ftp)://' > > > > If you add that '^' you're assuming that's the beginning of > the string (as > > you may already know); the thing is I cannot see the cases > where your URL > > starts with '?', the characters

Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 08:57 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I just wanted to comment something about Iain's suggestion: > > '^\?.*(http|https|ftp)://' > > If you add that '^' you're assuming that's the beginning of the string (as > you may already know); the thing is I cannot see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread tecnic5
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Re: [gentoo-user] Regex question

2008-06-03 Thread Iain Buchanan
Hi, On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 17:39 +1000, Adam Carter wrote: > I want to filter the strings; ? http:// or ? https:// or ? ftp:// from URLs in apache. I know i need to > escape ? but i'm not sure about /  / needs to be escaped in perl if your regex delimiters are / as well, but here you use ' so I