Regular Expressions

[Bill Marcum]

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On Sun, 27 May 2007 21:27:26 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan 
  <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi
>
> I have created a regex for the below smb URLs
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> smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch2006/Wanders/
> smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch2006/Wdivers/
> smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch2006/Wofferte/
> smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch2006/Wrapport/
> smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch2005/Wanders/
> smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch2005/Wdivers/
> smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch2005/Wofferte/
> smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch2005/Wrapport/
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> regex:^smb://ab-03.nea.nl/RegSec/Arch200[0-9]+/W[a-z]+/$
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> is there a way to check whether my regex is valid and I am sure i am missing
> something. Please correct me if my regex is wrong.
>
Create a file that contains some data which should match the regex and 
some which should not. Then test it with
grep -E 'regex' filename


> Thanks in Advance.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
>
> Kaushal
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Please don't post in html.



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