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Nicolas_MENOUX_'s avatar
Nicolas_MENOUX_
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Nov 23, 2009

regexp and # issue

Hi,

 

 

I'm trying to reload my bigip.conf file from my v9.3 appliance to the new v10 release but I'm stucked with a bracket issue with my conf file.

 

After analysing the file, I've discovered that this line is faulted :

 

 

 

} elseif {[regexp {^/foo-([^\.]*)-m([0-9]+)([0-9]+).html} $uri url param1 param2 param3]} {set uri_rewrite "/foo/Default.aspx?g=posts&m=$param2&boardid=5&$param3"

 

 

 

The issue is coming from the first between ([0-9]+)([0-9]+). I think it is treated as a comment and thus the bracket pb.

 

 

I've tried to put a \ before but nothing changes. Is there any way to replace this with an encoded sequence or use another special character to prevent this from being a comment.

 

 

Thanks for your help,

 

 

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3 Replies

  • The_Bhattman's avatar
    The_Bhattman
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    Nov 23, 2009
    Hi Nicolas,

     

    Try creating a variable and then passing the variable to the regexp to see if that works.

     

     

    Bhattman

     

     

  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Nov 23, 2009
    You could try replacing the curly braces with quotes and then escaping the square braces: 

     
    if {0}{ 
        do something 
    } elseif {[regexp "^/foo-(\[^\.\]*)-m(\[0-9\]+)(\[0-9\]+).html" $uri url param1 param2 param3]} { 
        do something 
    }

    Aaron
  • Nicolas_MENOUX_'s avatar
    Nicolas_MENOUX_
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    Nov 23, 2009
    Hi Aaron and Bhattman

     

     

    thanks for your help, I've just tried the double quotes instead of curly braces and it works well ! I do not remember why I originaly used these curly braces, I think it was linked with some regular expression in my stream matched irules where I could not use the double quote .... I've to study again the regexp syntax ... anyway thanks a lot ;-)

     

     

    Nicolas