Re: REGEX (Not allowing file extenstions) or the dot

From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 10/04/03 

Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 23:41:23 GMT

sts@news.sts wrote:
> ;RE:^say.*

> I DO NOT WANT TO ALLOW THIS: ".bsp" QUAKE SERVER ONLY NEEDS THE MAP NAME WHICH IS THE NAME OF THE FILE AND
> NOT THE '.' NOR THE 'BSP'. I WANT TO TOTALLY BAN, ".BSP" part of the client's command sent to the server.

> lrcon map map q2dm1.bsp

The question I have is whether you have any command where a period
should appear. If you don't, then just ban all periods. The problem is
that periods are usually special in regular expressions, and I can only
guess that this module and perl use similar syntax.

RE:\. # Ban any command with a period.

If that's too limiting, then this (might) ban anything starting with
lrcon that has a period elsewhere on the line.

RE:^lrcon.*\.

Again, syntax issues for RE are very dependent on what engine is in
use. Hopefully a backslash escapes the period here, but it might not.

It is possible that
RE:^lrcon.*[.]
would work if the above did not.. 

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