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Re: [netmod] regular expression flavours (again)

Martin Bjorklund <mbj@tail-f.com> Thu, 13 June 2019 13:44 UTC

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Subject: Re: [netmod] regular expression flavours (again)
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Robert Varga <nite@hq.sk> wrote:
> On 12/06/2019 11:25, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
> > That said, they do seem to declare something like
> > oc-ext:regexp-posix; but it would have been much smarter to use for
> > example oc-posix:regex instead of changing the semantics of the
> > pattern statement.
> 
> Yes, this would be preferable, but it has a downside: now you need to
> carry the patterns twice and must make sure they are in sync.

In the OC models they would/could just use the oc-posix:regex statement, and
not even use the pattern statement.

The current solution doesn't really work, since it requires tools to
understand the "regexp-posix" extension.

And yes, I'm the first to admit that tailf:action had the same kind of
problem.


/martin

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