Hello Keith, Tuesday, April 12, 2005, 6:10:38 PM, you wrote:
KI> Robert Menschel wrote: >> The question is how intelligent do you want to make the rule(s). If >> you want something like >> >> body L_PIPE m'\w\w\|\w\w' >> body L_ZER0 m'\w\w0\w\w' >> body L_VEEE m'\\/\w' >> body L_AAAA m'\w/\\\w' >> body L_LONE m'\w\w1\w\w' >> meta L_OBFU2 L_PIPE + L_ZERO + L_VEEE + L_AAAA + L_LONE > 1 KI> Remember that \w matches letters, numbers, and underscores, so KI> you'll probably want to use something like [a-z] or [A-Za-z] (or KI> [a-z] with a /i modifier at the end of the regex) instead. KI> Otherwise you'll wind up triggering on perfect ordinary numbers. KI> Even with [a-z], I'd expect a fair number of false positives. Definitely. I considered that with L_PIPE, and figured that was OK. Then since I wasn't doing real rules anyway, but just an example, I got lazy and used the \w for the other rules as well, even though \w\w0\w\w would match 10000. Bob Menschel
