On Tue, 6 Oct 2015, Bond Masuda wrote: > Let's say I have messages like: > > msg=A > msg=B > ... > > > and my rule is: > > type=Single > ptype=regexp > pattern=^msg=(.*)$ > action= assign %msg $1; \ > create EVENT_%msg 30 ( logonly %msg expired ) > > > Does the action list for when the context EVENT_%msg expires, get saved > somewhere when the create action happens? Or, does that get evaluated > when the context expires? > > e.g., if msg=A and msg=B are less than 30 seconds apart, when EVENT_A > expires, will I get "A expired" or "B expired" in my log message? > > Is the scope of action variables like %msg in the above example global? > If one rule sets %msg, can another rule then access that value in %msg? > Or are they all locally scoped and disappear once the rule is done > processing?
the variables are local to the rule, but you can use varmap to save them from one rule and access them from others (this is designed to avoid needing to do the parsing multiple times) David Lang ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Simple-evcorr-users mailing list Simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/simple-evcorr-users
