regex problem with webcheck

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:12:59 +0100, R Kimber wrote:

> I'm trying to use the --yank=PATTERN option of webcheck in order to
> prevent it checking any URL that starts with a '/'.
> 
> I've tried many variations on stuff like ^/.* but without success, but
> I'm not much of a regex expert.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can persuade webcheck to ignore such URLs?
> 
> - Richard

I don't know webcheck, but for a regex I think you will need ^\/ to be 
sure the / is taken literal and not as a special character.

-- 
Aart