RegEx needed

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Re: RegEx needed by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Sep 05, 2003 at 13:49 UTC
Anonymous Monk, I am betting you will be surprised to find out that not all OIDs are the same. OID is defined as an Object Identifier - a string of digits seperated by periods with the most signficant digits being found to the left and working right towards least significant. That is where the similarities end. I did various searches on CPAN and Google looking for an RFC or a pre-existing regex to do what you were looking for. I found lots of OIDs that didn't look like your example. So to answer your question further - you will have to specificy exactly which kind of OID you are using (application/log that has the OIDs in question). Cheers - L~R	[reply]
Re: RegEx needed by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Sep 05, 2003 at 12:05 UTC
Probably. How do OID strings look like? Abigail	[reply]
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Re: RegEx needed by jadev (Initiate) on Sep 05, 2003 at 12:20 UTC
`$ip_pattern = qr((?:(?:[01]?[0-9]{1,2}\|2[0-4][0-9]\|25[0-5])\.){3}(?:[01]?[0-9]{1,2}\|2[0-4][0-9]\|25[0-5]));` This matches only IP addresses. There's one caveat: 0.0.0.0 is matched too. Use it like this: `if ($oid =~ /^(?:\d+\.)+\d+$/ and $oid !~ /^$ip_pattern$/o) { blah blah blah }` _{janitored by ybiC: Balanced <code> tags around code sample, as per Monastery convention}	[reply] [d/l] [select]