in reply to Re: Test RegEx
in thread Test RegEx

I have counted, added, subtracted ")" with not change in the error. I am trying to test the RegEx: ^\s*password\s+requisite\s+(/lib/security/$ISA/)?pam_cracklib.*lcredit=(0123456789-+

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Re^3: Test RegEx
by kennethk (Abbot) on Apr 08, 2010 at 18:12 UTC
    As I stated, if the code I posted does not meet your spec, post intended input and output. Without that, anything I suggest is just guess work. Note that the posted solution above is a valid regular expression. The entire conditional line would look like:

    if (@RECORD = grep (/^\s*password\s+requisite\s+(/lib/security/$ISA/)?pam_cracklib.*lcredit=([0123456789-]+)/, @fRecords )) {

    Update: I missed the unescaped slashes, as Corion caught below. You either need to escape them or use a different delimiter, such as:

    if (@RECORD = grep (m!^\s*password\s+requisite\s+(/lib/security/$ISA/)?pam_cracklib.*lcredit=([0123456789-]+)!, @fRecords )) {

    As a side note, see how your character class was linkified? That happened because you did not wrap your code in code tags. See Writeup Formatting Tips and/or Markup in the Monastery.