[syslog-ng]Square Brackets in match()

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 02:19:22PM -0400, Clayton L. Scott wrote:
> 
> Syslog-ng: 1.5.18 and 1.4.11
> 
> If I have a message that looks like this:
> 
> Jun  3 00:16:52 X.X.X.X/X.X.X.X rido-ott[System]: request for unserviced tcp:X.X.X.X-25 from X.X.X.X denied
> 
> if I want to match this part
> [System]: request for unserviced
> 
> I have to leave out the leading '['.
> 
> eg
> 
> match("[System]: request for unserviced") will not
> 
> but
> 
> match("System]: request for unserviced") will
> 
> Is this a bug in the matching grammar? If I used normal regexp syntax
> and escape the '[' as in '\[' is stiil won't work.

quotation marks behave just like do in the shell, so '\' is interpreted by
the quotation mark itself. To insert a \ in the string, you must duplicate
it like this:

match("\\[System\\]: request for unserviced")

-- 
Bazsi
PGP info: KeyID 9AF8D0A9 Fingerprint CD27 CFB0 802C 0944 9CFD 804E C82C 8EB1