Thanks, Todd -- I am happy that you like sec :-)
risto

2017-03-17 18:50 GMT+02:00 Todd M. Hall <t...@msstate.edu>:
> Risto,
>
> Good to know, thanks.  And while I've got your attention I'd like to thank you
> for an awesome program and for all of your hard work.
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2017, Risto Vaarandi wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2017 11:09:16 -0500
>> From: Risto Vaarandi <risto.vaara...@seb.ee>
>> To: Todd M. Hall <t...@msstate.edu>,
>>     Simple Event Corralator <simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> Subject: RE: [Simple-evcorr-users] Negation
>>
>> Hi Todd,
>> Since SEC is written in Perl, it uses Perl's regular expression engine, and 
>> therefore supports all regular expression features that are supported by the 
>> underlying Perl version. Since SEC requires perl 5.8 or later which all have 
>> lookaheads and lookbehinds, they can also be used in rule definitions.
>> Kind regards,
>> risto
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Todd M. Hall [mailto:t...@msstate.edu]
>>> Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 5:02 PM
>>> To: Simple Event Corralator <simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>> Subject: Re: [Simple-evcorr-users] Negation
>>>
>>> I've not verified if this works in SEC, but you could maybe do a negative
>>> lookahead/behind
>>>
>>> \.php\?id=[0-9A-Za-z]{8}(?!\.net|\.org)
>>>
>>> (?<!\.net|\.org)\S+\.php\?id=[0-9A-Za-z]{8}
>>>
>>> There may be a bit of a performance hit with using these though.  Give them
>>> a try.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 16 Mar 2017, James Lay wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2017 17:42:25 -0500
>>>> From: James Lay <j...@slave-tothe-box.net>
>>>> To: Simple Event Corralator <simple-evcorr-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>>>> Subject: [Simple-evcorr-users] Negation
>>>>
>>>> Hey all,
>>>>
>>>> So I'm trying to create a rule to match this pattern:
>>>>
>>>> "\.php\?id=[0-9A-Za-z]{8}"
>>>>
>>>> The caveat is that I can't match certain things like, for example
>>>> "\.net|\.org".  How do I create a regex with negation for SEC?  Thank
>>>> you.
>>>>
>>>> James
>>>>
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