[syslog-ng]syntax for escaped characters

[Mike Pepe]

Ah, I forgot the extra \

it's working now.

thanks Balazs!

Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 16:28 -0500, Mike Pepe wrote:
> 
>>OK, I'm trying to figure out what the correct syntax for a match is.
>>
>>I'm trying to match crond(pam_unix)
>>
>>filter f_cron_pam  { match("crond(pam_unix)"); };
>>
>>Doesn't match.
>>
>>filter f_cron_pam  { match("crond\(pam_unix\)"); };
>>
>>Doesn't match.
>>
>>something about the parenthesis it doesn't like, because:
>>
>>filter f_cron_pam  { match("crond") and match("pam_unix"); };
>>
>>does match. It's just kind of an ugly way around it.
>>
>>Anyone know what the right way to do this is?
> 
> 
> the string syntax is the same as in C, e.g. '\' is used to escape
> characters, e.g. '\(' is the equivalent of '(' which is a special
> character in eregexps.
> 
> You'll need match("crond\\(pam_unix\\)")
>