[syslog-ng] Thoughts on patterndb syntax

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 12:26 -0400, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:
> > Interesting idea and of course doable, but then if there's indeed
> > multiple spaces in the message, you get in trouble.
> 
> If you were to only give linebreaks special treatment -- so that
> "this\nthat" would become "this that" -- then you've probably solved
> both problems; messages can be wrapped for readability and you can
> still include arbitrary stretches of whitespace in the expression.

Hmm... and what about multi-line messages? sorry to raise one problem at
a time, but this how they come to my scattered and distracted mind.
(after returning from Netfilter Workshop where I spent my last week,
this week is close to horrible :)

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Bazsi