You misunderstand what is being matched against. That's documented. It doesn't
say that is
*searches* the string. It says it matches the string. You confused // notation
which is a
search not a comparison.
nwat...@symcor.com wrote:
> Mark Burgess <mark.burg...@iu.hio.no> wrote on 2010-02-17 15:09:29:
>
>> There wouldn't be a line break in your line. This is standard regex
>> stuff. Regexs don't go
>> through line breaks.
>
> The desired atom is before the line break. This I expect to match as it
> does with pcregrep, sed, grep and perl.
>
> [nwat...@unxxhd01 inputs]$ cat regcmp.cf
> ######################
> body common control {
> bundlesequence => { "test" };
> }
>
> bundle common agent {
> classes:
> "all" expression => "any";
> }
>
>
> bundle agent test {
>
> vars:
>
> "reg" string => "OpenSSH";
> "str1" string => "SSH-OpenSSH-4.3";
> "str2" string => "SSH-OpenSSH-4.3
> newline";
>
> classes:
>
> "port1" expression => regcmp(".*${reg}.*","${str1}");
> "port2" expression => regcmp(".*${reg}.*","${str2}");
> # Both should match
>
> reports:
>
> port1::
> "Port1 match!";
> !port1::
> "No port1 match!";
> port2::
> "Port2 match!";
> !port2::
> "No port2 match!";
>
> }
>
> [nwat...@unxxhd01 inputs]$ ~/src/cfengine-3.0.3/src/cf-agent -Kf
> ./regcmp.cf
> R: Port1 match!
> R: No port2 match!
>
> As a wish list item I wish that CF's regular expressions were more like
> PCRE than they are. CF does use PCRE but it is more of a dialect. Having
> to add '.*' and extra escapes (e.g \\s intead of \s) requires one to learn
> another regex flavour.
>
> Sincerely,
> --
> Neil Watson
> 416-673-3465
>
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