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Skriven 2014-04-05 12:18:05 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 13993 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
Ärende: Areafix %HELP                       WAS; The `Global Warming'
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Greetings Janis!

 Brer Janis Kracht wrote to Brer Roy Witt about Areafix %HELP
WAS; The `Global Warming':

 >>>> You're saying that your linux doesn't have an AREAFIX %HELP command
 >>>> that sends an AREAFIX.HLP file with an explanation in it to the
 >>>> system asking for help?

 >>> It has a help.  Whether one knows what regexp is, is another story,
 >>> and one the author is sure not going to try to document in the %help
 >>> screen that is returned to the user :)

 >> I can't imagine what regexp would indicate, but the docs should give
 >> one an idea.

 JK> 'Regexp' is an abbreviation of the term "regular expressions",

So my revelation to Nathan about Regualer Expressions is fact...good
guessing on my part.

 JK> a sequence of characters used in a search pattern in string matching.
 JK> There is a section in the documentation of BBBS that describes its
 JK> implementation in BBBS and some of my downlinks have asked for and
 JK> read that documention.

That should have been included in the areafix.hlp file.

 JK> [...]

 >>> Clear as a bell to me, YMMV <g>

 >> Most of it...but that regexp illudes simple logic.

 JK> That's when one would normally do some research, I guess, or ask the
 JK> sysop who's running bbbs.  Sometimes my downlinks do, sometimes they
 JK> don't.

I think I would ask...

 >>> It's those lines "+arearegexp", etc. that cause problems because
 >>> people don't realize what that means exactly.

 >> It would help if the BBS sysop were to modify that help file to tell
 >> the unaware what regexp means.

 JK> I did modify the help screen that I send to people manually, i.e.,
 JK> when someone gets stuck, I send them my modified version that has a
 JK> few simple examples of usage. For example:

 JK>   Examples with arearegexp:

 JK>     Msg. Echos:
 JK>      echo +^FN_SYSOP$
 JK>      echo +^Z1_SYSOP$
 JK>      echo +^ABLED$

 JK> $ is a regexp char that means "ends with".. and in the above
 JK> examples, can delimintate the tagname desired.  So in that help file,
 JK> I explain also what the characters ^ and $ mean in the expression,
 JK> but again I don't describe what all the regexp characters are, or
 JK> what they can do. That's up to the downlink to ask about if they are
 JK> interested.

Sounds reasonable.

 >>> For instance, if you don't use delimiters in regexp, like +^tagname
 >>> which means "starts with...", brobocop, bbbs's bot, adds you to any
 >>> area that has tagname in the tagname..

 >>> +DOS will add you to:
 >>> DOS
 >>> DOS_INTERNET
 >>> FIDOSOFT.HUSKY
 >>> OS2DOSBBS
 >>> OS2DOS

 >>> Brobocop is just following orders <grin>

 >> What a mess that could turn out to be. What if you don't use the + to
 >> add an echo?

 JK> You can leave out the "+" in +tagname, just like in any standard
 JK> areafix.

At least that is normal...


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