Rule Regex Question.

[Nigel Frankcom <ni...@blue-canoe.net>]

Hi All,

Can anyone tell me if I need to escape the characters within the
square braces in the following?

body NF_REM_CHAR1 /remove [*%!+`"£$%^&()_-=#~]/i
score NF_REM_CHAR1 4.0
describe NF_REM_CHAR1 remove chars for URL spams

TIA

Nigel

Re: Rule Regex Question.

["John D. Hardin" <jh...@impsec.org>]

On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Nigel Frankcom wrote:

> Can anyone tell me if I need to escape the characters within the
> square braces in the following?
> 
> body NF_REM_CHAR1 /remove [*%!+`"£$%^&()_-=#~]/i

A dash indicates a range (e.g. a-z) - if you need that, it's safest to 
put it as the first character in the set. Right now you're specifying 
"any character between _ and =, inclusive".

The ^ would have significance if it was first, but it's not.

You don't have a closing square bracket, which is the third one to 
worry about.

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