MCP Problems - URGENT

[Jeramy Eling]

Thats great. 

Thanks all for the help

Jez.

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> That's great, I will change my cf files to reflect this. While we
> are on the subject I have two quick questions:-
> 1) Are there any other characters I should be careful with? 2)
> How can I get the system to look for '|' and '@', each time I put
> them in the cf file the MCP checks stop working.
> Thanks for everyone's help on this
> Jez

you need to precede them with a "\", as with the period. While the @ is not
strictly a regex character perl will attempt to interpret it as a start of
an array variable, likewise if a $ is encountered, and it's not the last
character in the regular expression, perl will attempt to interpret it as
the beginning of a variable. The pipe "|" is used in a regex to mean OR like
/me|mine|yours/ will match "me" or "mine" or "yours".

Here are a couple of links to pretty good online tutorials for perl regex

http://iis1.cps.unizar.es/Oreilly/perl/perlnut/ch04_06.htm
http://tlc.perlarchive.com/articles/perl/pm0001_perlretut.shtml

the first gives good examples of "quoting" or escaping reserved characters.

Rick

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