Re: HashCommentLinesMatching

[Mark . Burgess]

Can't you just negate the regular expression?

On 28 Mar, Billy Allan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:52:14AM +0000, Andrew Stribblehill wrote:
>> Quoting Akop Pogosian <akopps@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> (2003-03-28 03:56:36 GMT):
>> > Is there a way to hash comment lines that are NOT matching a regexp
>> > using this or some other cfengine command? Perhaps cfengine needs a
>> > new editing command, HashCommentLinesNotMatching?
>> 
>> Nah, you've got UnCommentLinesMatching. So just use:
>> 
>> HashCommentLinesMatching ".*"
>> UnCommentLinesMatching "xyzzy"
> 
> But that's not nearly as clear or easy to understand as  :
> 
> 
> HashCommentLinesNotMatching "xyzzy"
> 
> 
> Which would seem to me to leave you with a more understandable config
> file...
> 
> Billy.
> 
> 
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