Re^3: question on log_watcher input

[marinersk]

To answer your original question:

This line of code extracts the search string from the config file:

    ($string[$i], $action[$i], $actionargs[$i],
    $numrows[$i]) = split /\t+/, $_;

And this line decides if the logfile has a match:

    if ($_ =~ /$string[$str_index]/i) {

As far as I can tell, if you were to put a regular expression in for your string in the config file, it would directly interpret it as such. This is a direct conflict with your statement that it doesn't take regular expressions.

Have you tried

orchestral.*execution    mail    1

at all? Because unless I'm missing something (and I sort of skimmed the code so it's of course possible), it sure looks to me like it would work.

[adewolf38]

Yes sir that did work. I had previously tried (?=orchestral)(?=execution) , or just /orchestral/ /execution/ and some others. I'm still learning Perl and regex. Thanks very much for your input.

[marinersk]

Glad it worked!