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Good day folks, a bit of advice would be appreciated for my soggy brain.
:-(

I was doing a bit of house keeping on Pluto filters where I have a number
of them Regex active with .*

"Sans quotes) Some of them are "Filterstring .*" (Filterstring space.*)
and some of them are "Filterstring.*" (Filterstring nospace.*).

Can some kind person please remind me of the different effects of those
two different .* positions?

Thanks
Dave
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.misc

In article <5bbe02d86ddave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

Good day folks, a bit of advice would be appreciated for my soggy
brain.
:-(

I was doing a bit of house keeping on Pluto filters where I have a
number of them Regex active with .*

"Sans quotes) Some of them are "Filterstring .*" (Filterstring
space.*) and some of them are "Filterstring.*" (Filterstring
nospace.*).

Can some kind person please remind me of the different effects of
those two different .* positions?

'string.*' will match 'string x' and 'stringx'
'string<blank>.*' will match 'string x' but not 'stringx'

This question has prompted me to add to my website a RegExTest program
I wrote years ago, but it never got formally released. Note that it is
Beta, may have some bugs, but could be useful. It is available from:

http://www.avisoft.f9.co.uk/
https://homepages.force9.net/avisoft/

Martin
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.misc

In article <5bbe1da83fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

In article <5bbe02d86ddave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

Good day folks, a bit of advice would be appreciated for my soggy
brain.
:-(

I was doing a bit of house keeping on Pluto filters where I have a
number of them Regex active with .*

"Sans quotes) Some of them are "Filterstring .*" (Filterstring
space.*) and some of them are "Filterstring.*" (Filterstring
nospace.*).

Can some kind person please remind me of the different effects of
those two different .* positions?

'string.*' will match 'string x' and 'stringx'
'string<blank>.*' will match 'string x' but not 'stringx'

This question has prompted me to add to my website a RegExTest program
I wrote years ago, but it never got formally released. Note that it is
Beta, may have some bugs, but could be useful. It is available from:

http://www.avisoft.f9.co.uk/
https://homepages.force9.net/avisoft/

Martin

Thanks for that info Martin, appreciated.

Dave

But...
Problem... When I go to your site, with either NetSurf (RISC OS side) or Firefox (Windows side) I get an error message when I click the !RegExTest download link:

"Avisoft Page Error.
Sorry ... we could not find that page!"

"Please click 'home' to return to the Avisoft home page."

"Home" being a link, but it does nothing in both browsers.

?

Dave
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.misc

In article <5bbe3272fadave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

In article <5bbe1da83fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

In article <5bbe02d86ddave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

Good day folks, a bit of advice would be appreciated for my
soggy brain.
:-(

I was doing a bit of house keeping on Pluto filters where I
have a number of them Regex active with .*

"Sans quotes) Some of them are "Filterstring .*" (Filterstring
space.*) and some of them are "Filterstring.*" (Filterstring
nospace.*).

Can some kind person please remind me of the different effects
of those two different .* positions?

'string.*' will match 'string x' and 'stringx'
'string<blank>.*' will match 'string x' but not 'stringx'

This question has prompted me to add to my website a RegExTest
program I wrote years ago, but it never got formally released.
Note that it is Beta, may have some bugs, but could be useful. It
is available from:

http://www.avisoft.f9.co.uk/
https://homepages.force9.net/avisoft/

But...

Problem... When I go to your site, with either NetSurf (RISC OS
side) or Firefox (Windows side) I get an error message when I click
the !RegExTest download link:

"Avisoft Page Error.
Sorry ... we could not find that page!"

Ooops! Sorry - the one link I did not check!
Should now be fixed.
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.misc

In message <5bbe3272fadave@triffid.co.uk>
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

In article <5bbe1da83fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

In article <5bbe02d86ddave@triffid.co.uk>,
Dave <dave@triffid.co.uk> wrote:

Good day folks, a bit of advice would be appreciated for my soggy
brain.
:-(

I was doing a bit of house keeping on Pluto filters where I have a
number of them Regex active with .*

"Sans quotes) Some of them are "Filterstring .*" (Filterstring
space.*) and some of them are "Filterstring.*" (Filterstring
nospace.*).

Can some kind person please remind me of the different effects of
those two different .* positions?

'string.*' will match 'string x' and 'stringx'
'string<blank>.*' will match 'string x' but not 'stringx'

This question has prompted me to add to my website a RegExTest program
I wrote years ago, but it never got formally released. Note that it is
Beta, may have some bugs, but could be useful. It is available from:

http://www.avisoft.f9.co.uk/
https://homepages.force9.net/avisoft/

Martin

Thanks for that info Martin, appreciated.

Dave

But...
Problem... When I go to your site, with either NetSurf (RISC OS side) or Firefox (Windows side) I get an error message when I click the !RegExTest download link:

"Avisoft Page Error.
Sorry ... we could not find that page!"

"Please click 'home' to return to the Avisoft home page."

"Home" being a link, but it does nothing in both browsers.

Just tried it for you and I was able to access the: http://www.avisoft.f9.co.uk/ website and then go and download the file without issue.

But the https site generated a certificate error for an invalid TLS certificate
https://homepages.force9.net/avisoft/

Both using !Iris
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.misc

In article <5bbe35aa0fNews03@avisoft.f9.co.uk>,
Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> wrote:

[Snip]

Ooops! Sorry - the one link I did not check!
Should now be fixed.

It is indeed fixed.

Thanks

Dave
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From Newsgroup: comp.sys.acorn.misc

In article <f5e035be5b.chris@mytardis>,
Chris Hughes <news13@noonehere.co.uk> wrote:

[Snip]

Just tried it for you and I was able to access the: http://www.avisoft.f9.co.uk/ website and then go and download the
file without issue.

Good ...

But the https site generated a certificate error for an invalid
TLS certificate https://homepages.force9.net/avisoft/

... not so good ...

Both using !Iris

... or Netsurf ... but using Firefox on Windows it works just fine!

This is a known problem with the ISP's handling of their certificate -
I did report it about 5 months ago, but you have reminded me to chase
it up again.

Some browsers cope, some do not!
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