[augeas-devel] Getting pattern and checking values against regexp

[David Lutterkort]

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 20:41 +0200, Raphaël Pinson wrote:


>         This would only be possible if that query is based on the
>         current tree,
>         since the pattern for a value can change depending on whether
>         other
>         nodes in the tree are present or not. For example,
>         
>                let lns =  ([ key /u/ ] . [ key /b/ . store /[0-9]+/ ])
>                           | ([ key /v/ ] . [ key /b/ .
>         store /[a-z]+/ ])
> 
> 
> Yes, I understand that problem, and I meant to use it against the
> current tree. It would not be to check in general what a field could
> contain, but in the context of the tree. Maybe my example was a bit
> vague and I could have written 
> 
> pattern("/files/etc/logrotate.
> d/apache2/rule[2]/file[3]")
> => /[^,# \n\t{}]+/
> 
> 
> Is that what you mean about using the current tree ?

Yes, that was pretty much the point I was making.

David