[rrd-users] Re: Newbie needs help with 14all.cgi

[Alex van den Bogaerdt]

David Sawyer wrote:

> But when I execute the script I get the following error...
> 
> C:\mrtg-2.9.4\contrib\14all>perl 14all2.cgi
> Content-type: text/html
> 
> <H1>Software error:</H1>
> <PRE>/\([^\]*)\.(cgi|pl)$/: unmatched [] in regexp at 14all2.cgi line 104.
> </PRE>
> <P>

Escape characters can be a bitch.  I assume you want to match
strings like '\something.pl' but not '\\server\host\whatever.pl'

The backslash has a special meaning. It tells the software to use
the next character without a special meaning (if any).  So, to scan
for a backslash, you have to type two of them. You are now starting
a range (with '[') containing, amongst other characters, the ']' char.

It should probably be something like /\\[^\\]*\.(cgi|pl)$/
although I'm not sure that this is safe!

cheers,
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