Andrej Ricnik-Bay wrote:

Plain regex.... The key are the parenthesis () ...
basically it will omit ANYTHING + two slashes at the beginning
of a string.  Then it will match everything BUT a slash, and as
much of that as possible since regex are greedy by default
(hence the host name he was looking for) ... and everything
AFTER a slash will be omitted.



Cheers,
Andrej


Thanks - that makes a bit more sense. I'm in the middle of reading chapter 9.3.7 of the manual - POSIX Regular Expressions - which I'm assuming is dealing with this, so it's looking clearer.

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