regex problem with webcheck

[R Kimber]

On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 23:38:55 +0100
R Kimber wrote:

> On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:11:07 +0000 (UTC)
> Aart Koelewijn wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Thanks.  But I did try that.  I also tried puting the argument in quotes.

Actually, the example on the manpage (which works) implies that you don't
need to escape it.

I've come to the conclusion that metacharacters don't work and that only
the simplest regular expressions (literal strings) actually work.

- Richard
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Richard Kimber
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