Help with regular expression

Hello All,
Not sure where this post belonged so bump it where you like.

I need some freaking help with a regular expression. I have been trying for an hour now and I've only produced a lot of frustration.

I need to pull out the marked line, and since my IP changes, I can only use [dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net]. Can somebody figure out a regexp for this?? I would really appreciate it!

Here's my psudo code:
[anything here up to]dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net$

...
pool-ip.here.bos.east.verizon.net
ar60.lsanca1-ip.here.lsanca1.dsl-verizon.net
adsl-ip.here.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net <----Need this line
ip.here.dsl.grics.net
...

Thanks a million!
-Kevin

you could `explode` the whole paragraph with '\n' into lines, and then check which line contains the string you are looking for.

-- Adil

Well, to be more specific on what I'm using this for, I'm using it to prevent my visits to my site being picked up by AWStats, and they have an option in their config file to enter a regexp with your hostname.

Here is the line from the file:



Granted that above regexp doesn't work, so I'm trying to find one that will.

Thanks,
-Kevin

You should escape all the dot characters that are literal dots.

me <-- regexp challenged

Can you spell (type) that out for me? If you can re-write the expression above with REGEXP..... with what needs to be there that would be awesome!!

Thanks a bunch,
-Kevin

You already did it for the first dot character, but here's what I mean:

Cool, thanks, I'll give it a try.

I've been using this online tool to check my regexp's, and apparently even escaping doesn't work

http://www.bitesizeinc.net/demo.regexp.html

I used the following data on the notepad (each as their own line):

pcp08887104pcs.valenc01.az.comcast.net
mtl-hse-ppp197355.qc.sympatico.ca
adsl-64-164-119-161.dsl.mtry01.pacbell.net
ar60.lsanca1-4.29.76.4.lsanca1.dsl-verizon.net


Thanks,
-Kevin

You're assuming that AWStats is running the expression on each line, and it's probably not. You need to get rid of the ^ prefix and the $ suffix.I tested it that way on that site and it turned your host red, which I guess means that's what it matched.

I used the expression in your last post, and I got all of the lines up to and including mine, so something wasn't quite right.

Below is taken directly out of the .conf file for AWStats, maybe that will help some.



Somebody throw me a quarter so I can buy a freaking clue I just want this regexp to work.

Thanks,
-Kevin

No offense, but I wish you had some experience with regular expressions. I could modify this thing all day w/ trial and error. It seems AWStats treats some of these differently than I'm used to. In PHP/Perl, .* matches any character except new lines, but here it seems to match accross lines too. And since the syntax here uses brackets, I wonder if the expression can. Here's a couple to try.

You were right on the money, except for a *, but you were correct.

Final code is:


Thanks for all your help, I really appreciate it, I'm gonna go throw it into the AWStats .conf and see if it works.

-Kevin

I really have to agree with jharnois. It would be a good idea if you familiarized yourself with regular expressions.
Here is a link to a good book you may want to check out.

Regards,

jlk