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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Just a thought here…but the [a-z]
will only match against lowercase characters. Is that the behaviour you
wanted?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
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nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Ingo Lantschner<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> May 5, 2006 7:39 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b>
nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Antwort: [Nagios-users]
Regular Expression Expansion</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></font><tt><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
schrieb am 03.05.2006 05:13:58:</span></font></tt><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><br>
<br>
<br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> #dependent_service_description
^Tun.*-(?:Chattanooga|Midlothian)$</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> ...</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> </font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> The commented line generates errors on
pre-flight check. It's almost as</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> if it cannot handle the alternation (|).
Have I mangled the regular</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">> expression or is this a peculiarity of
Nagios? Thanks - John</font></tt><br>
<tt><font face="Courier New">Seems as if it is not clear, which flavor of Regex
is suported in Nagios, I had a similar problem, and could not find a clear
documentation about the regex-suport in Nagios yet.</font></tt></span></font> <br>
<br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>F.e.
</span></font><br>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'>[sw][0-9]{3}[a-z]{2,124}\.company\.net</span></font>
<font size=2 face=sans-serif><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:sans-serif'><br>
This should match any string starting with either s or w, followed by exactly 3
digits and a resonable number of characters plus the domain suffix.</span></font>
<br>
But it did not work. May be I am missing some backslashes? <br>
<br>
Please, can anyone point us to the right place? <br>
<br>
TIA, Ingo.<o:p></o:p></p>
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