Re: Regular expressions and backslashes...

[Adrian Phillips]

>>>>> "Juri" == Juri Jensen <juri@xenux.dk> writes:

[Don't forget to copy to the list so its in the archives]

<snip>

[ why using [[:blank:]] ]
    Juri> No, but I'm not that good at regular expressions. Are there
    Juri> any other way that I could achieve the same result...?

Just write it  :-

BeginGroupIfNoLineMatching "^ *;* *logon path = [\][\]%N[\]USERPROFILES[\]%U( 
+(;.*)?)?$"

    >> - there could be several spaces around the =

    Juri> There isn't...

In your case perhaps, I just meant in general smb.conf can have
multiple spaces and it is normally better to be flexible to begin
with.

    >> - have you a copy of the line which this should match

    Juri> Yes:

    Juri>    logon path = \\%N\USERPROFILES\%U ; Edited by cfengine

Oh, as in the one you are replacing it with :-)

Right, I've been testing this with perl and having lots of fun. Yes,
it is the backslashes. Using [\] gives problems because \] is just an
escaped ] possibly. I've tried various variations and I'm currently
stumped although you could try [\\] to see if that helps.

Stop the press !! I got it working using :-

^ *;* *logon path = [\\][\\]%N[\\]USERPROFILES[\\]%U( +(;.*)?)?$

Try that and let me know if it works as it works using perl at least
but I haven't checked with cfengine

Sincerely,

Adrian

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