Don't understand this match

Richard Thomas richard.thomas at psysolutions.com
Wed Mar 1 21:07:11 GMT 2006


Julian Field wrote:

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>Richard Thomas wrote:
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>>I'm not understanding why a certain filename has triggered the "Attempt
>>to hide real filename extension" rule. The filename is
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>>Shortcut 29 t.xls
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>>The rule is \.[a-z][a-z0-9]{2,3}\s*\.[a-z0-9]{3}$
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>This regexp is just fine, it has been there for several years without 
>any changes whatsoever. I wrote it carefully and got it right first time.
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OK. I guess I need to scratch my head on why it is matching that 
filename then.

Rich

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