- From: Ari Luotonen <luotonen@netscape.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 15:18:25 -0800 (PST)
- To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Most shells these days implement [...] and [^...] for negated > character class. Experience seems to show that full R.E.'s are beyond > most users. Many of the sites I've dealt with would like to be able to match a non-FQDN hostname which is not possible with shell expressions, even with closures (this is an RE): http://[^.:/]*[^.].* and this shell expression: http://*.netscape.com* is not the same as RE: http://[^.:/]*\.netscape\.com* (and the latter is typically what you want). Cheers, -- Ari Luotonen ari@netscape.com Netscape Communications Corp. http://home.netscape.com/people/ari/ 501 East Middlefield Road Mountain View, CA 94043, USA Netscape Server Development Team
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