[ILUG] regex(5)

[Mark McLoughlin]

On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Jerry Walsh wrote:

> Don't escape them! let them be free to do their groovy regex things - you
> need the ()'s and the pipe unescaped..

That totally depends on what regex(5) *syntax* you're using. Since we
don't have that information yet and \.(gif|jpg|jpeg)$ didn't work then
it was a safe guess that \.\(gif\|jpg\|jpeg\)$ would work. But it
doesn't, apparently.

So try \.(gif\|jpg\|jpeg)$ and  \.\(gif|jpg|jpeg\)$. One of the
combinations will work ;)

If you have the source and it uses the gnu regex library then try
grepping for 'RE_' in the source. This will tell you what syntax
you're using.

Good Luck,
Mark