Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL v2] bkl tracepoints + filter regex support | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:30:15 -0400 |
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On Fri, 2009-09-25 at 11:40 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Using globs in string matches most certainly is useful, no question > about that. > > But I had understood from previous communications we were going to have > a C syntax, and there == is a straight comparison. > > If however people have changed their minds (fine with me) and we're now > going to script like things.. > > Anyway, a glob in == just means we have to use another operator if we > ever want to support actual regexes, ~ would then be recommened I think, > since that's what awk and I think perl do.
I agree that any use of '==' should be a direct match and if you want to add a glob expression you can use something else. Like what Peter showed (~) or even better =~ which is what perl uses.
/me runs
;-)
-- Steve
> > Personally I wouldn't mind things like: > > glob_match(string, pattern) > regex_match(string, pattern) > > But everybody involved in this filter stuff needs to agree what > direction you want to take the language in.
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