> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Radu Gheorghe
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:06 PM
> To: rsyslog-users
> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] How to escape backslash in rainerscript
> if...then conditions
> 
> 2012/9/13 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]>:
> >
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog-
> >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Radu Gheorghe
> >> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 3:26 PM
> >> To: rsyslog-users
> >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] How to escape backslash in rainerscript
> >> if...then conditions
> >>
> >> Hi Rainer,
> >>
> >> We've been trying with the attached patches and, while I don't get
> >> configuration errors anymore as I did in the initial post, now the
> >> "if" conditions don't seem to work at all. For example:
> >>
> >
> > I'll check ASAP, but I have just started work deep in the grammar
> fort he new set capability. So it will take a short moment...
> 
> Thanks for replying so fast!
> 
> >
> >> # cat /etc/rsyslog.conf
> >> $ModLoad imuxsock
> >> #works
> >> #:msg, startswith, " bla" /tmp/works
> >> #doesn't work
> >> if $msg startswith ' bla' then action(type="omfile"
> >>                                  file="/tmp/works")
> >>
> >> What I get in the debug log when I do `logger bla` is:
> >
> > Could you do a 'logger 'bla bla'" - I just want to outrule that this
> is an old bug, where startswith does not proper handle exact matches (I
> didn't change anything in that regard, at least I think so ;).
> 
> Yep. Same outcome.
> 
> The weird part is that I've tried with "stock" 6.4.1 and I get the
> same behavior. So either I'm doing something horribly wrong, or the
> regression was introduced earlier.

FYI: I can reproduce the problem.
Rainer
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