06-26-2007
Um, this is input by user right ? And you want to be sure what he entered ? I guess one way would be to construct a regexp for each of conditions, something like : if $input equals [^some*mask$]; then action.
But this will require a lot of work and many conditions, as there may be more than one combination. Which language you're planning to use ?
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oggz-validate
oggz-validate(1) General Commands Manual oggz-validate(1)
NAME
oggz-validate -- Validate the Ogg framing of one or more files
SYNOPSIS
oggz-validate [-M num | --max-errors num ] [-p | --prefix ] [-s | --suffix ] [-P | --partial ] filename ...
oggz-validate [-h | --help ] [-v | --version ]
Description
oggz-validate validates the Ogg framing of one or more Ogg files.
oggz-validate detects the following errors in Ogg framing:
o File contains no Ogg packets
o Packets out of order
o Packet belongs to unknown serialno
o Granulepos decreasing within track
o Multiple bos pages
o Multiple eos pages
o eos marked but no bos
o Missing eos packets
o eos marked on page with no completed packets
o Granulepos on page with no completed packets
o Theora video bos page after audio bos page
o Terminal header page has non-zero granulepos
o Terminal header page contains non-header packet
o Terminal header page contains non-header segment
oggz-validate exits with status 0 if all files are valid Ogg files, and with status 1 if one or more errors are found.
Options
oggz-validate accepts the following options:
Error reporting options
-M num, --max-errors num
Exit after the specified number of errors. A value of 0 specifies no maximum.
-p, --prefix
Treat input as the prefix of a stream; suppress warnings about missing end-of-stream markers
-s, --suffix
Treat input as the suffix of a stream; suppress warnings about missing beginning-of-stream markers on the first chain
-P, --partial
Treat input as a the middle portion of a stream. Equivalent to both --prefix and --suffix
Miscellaneous options
-h, --help
Display usage information and exit.
-v, --version
Output version information and exit.
AUTHOR
Conrad Parker April 3, 2005;
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2005 CSIRO Australia
SEE ALSO
oggz-sort(1), oggz-dump(1), oggz-info(1)
oggz-validate(1)