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how to match "\w" with -glob to avoid using -regexp
Hi team,
I need help with iRule to filter URLs.
I want to match: /some/path/only_words-XXX or /some/path/only_words-XXXX (and everything below)
XXX and XXXX are numbers (length 3 or 4), "only_words" are any word character plus the "_" sign (or \w in regexp) and also I want the "-" sign.
Now in apache httpd I'm doing this with regexp:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /some/path/\w+-\d{3,4}(/?).*
As regexp is not recommended I wonder how to do this using "switch -glob [HTTP::uri]"
"/some/path" is always the same.
Please advice.
Thanks
5 Replies
- Kai_Wilke
MVP
Hi Vova V,
the
matching pattern is very limited in its capabilities. Basically this is what it could do...switch -globswitch -glob -- [HTTP::uri] { "/some/path/[A-z]-[0-9]/*" { This would match /some/path/a-1/file.txt or /some/path/A-2/file.txt or /some/path/_-2/file.txt but not /some/path/bb-22/file.txt } "/some/path/[A-z][A-z][A-z]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]/*" { This would match /some/path/abc-122/file.txt or /some/path/a_b-321/file.txt but not /some/path/a_cd-2234/file.txt } "/some/path/*-[0-9][0-9][0-9]/*" - "/some/path/*-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/*" { This would match /some/path/a_bc-123/file.txt or /some/path/ab_cd_ef-gh-1234/file.txt or /some/path/1234-1234/file.txt or /some/path/abc/a/b/c/d-123/file.txt but not /some/path/a_b-22/file.txt or /some/path/a_b-222a/file.txt } "/some/path/*/*" { This would match /some/path/aaa/file.txt or /some/path/123/file.txt or /some/path/abc123/file.txt but not /some/path/file.txt or /some/path2/abc_123/file.txt } default { This would match everything else.. } }Cheers, Kai
I'm using now:
"/some/path/*-[0-9][0-9][0-9]/*" - "/some/path/*-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/*" {}but as you said it will match other unwanted things.
I was wondering if I can do something like:
/some/path/[a-zA-Z*]-[0-9][0-9][0-9]/* - /some/path/[a-zA-Z*]-[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/* {}to limit the 1st match to only word characters, any number of hits.
