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Old 05-31-2006
Strange error message with regex test...

Hi all,

I have a script where i need to check the format of a string.
finally, i'm waiting a "process name" and 2 numbers separated by a ","

string like : "this_is_a_string.txt,1,10 should be ok"
string ok : "apache.exe,1,10"
string ok : "mysqld,50,0"

string not ok : "ap ache,1,10"
string not ok : "ap,ache,1,10"
string not ok : " apache,1,10"

PS : "" characters are only here to be able to show a string beginning with a space...

Here is what i tryed :

if [[ $(expr "$PROCESS_STRING" : '^[a-z0-9\-\.\_]*,[0-9]*,[0-9]*$') -ne 0 ]];
then
echo " : String OK"
else
echo " : String KO"
fi

But i always get an error :

expr: WARNING: BRE not portable: « ^[a-z0-9\-\.\_]*,[0-9]*,[0-9]*$ »: use of « ^ » character as first character of a base regular expression isn't portable; canceled.
: Format OK

The problem seems to be the "^" character at the beginning of my regex, but if i remove it, a string like " apache,1,10" would be ok but it shouldn't in my case...

thanks for your help

Florent
 

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shunit2 - A unit test framework for shell scripts SYNOPSIS
shunit2 unitfile DESCRIPTION
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