>>> On 5/17/2012 at 6:16 PM, John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2012, Joseph Acquisto wrote:
> 
>> I attempted to adapt something from a similar regex provided by a vendor
>> of a commercial product.  It was to detect country codes we do not want
>> to accept mail from.   No doubt my ignorance of SA and regex in general
>> will be on display for the amusement of many.
>>
>> rawbody            URI_RU              m,^https?://[^.\.][ru]/,i
> 
> heh. Yeah, that won't work. "[]" means a character class, one character 
> that matches anything within the square brackets.
> 
> What the above RE says is:
> 
> blah blah blah // (not-period OR period) (r OR u) /
> 
> ...so it would match, for example:
> 
>       https://.r/ 
>       https://.u/ 
> 
> but never:
> 
>       https://{anything}.ru/ 
> 
> And you actually had success testing that from the command line?
> 
> -- 
>   John Hardin KA7OHZ                    http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ 
>   jhar...@impsec.org    FALaholic #11174     pgpk -a jhar...@impsec.org 
>   key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C  AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79

I believe so.  It was weeks ago that I did that (then comment it out, intending 
to get back to it).

I won't be able to focus on this for a while.  I forgot we are having a social 
gathering tonight.
Sigh.  Sometimes that sort of thing has to happen.

joe a.


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