MCP Problems - URGENT

[Derek Winkler]

> >
> >
> > 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.
>
>

The tool is great for testing regular expressions,
http://weitz.de/regex-coach/

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