[RADIATOR] Problem with regex, or with Radiator parsing Check Items

[Heikki Vatiainen]

On 11/21/2013 03:51 PM, Tim Jones wrote:

> I was adding a Handler to deal with EAP-SIM requests, and tried to use
> the following regex to check the User-Name attribute:
> 
> /^1\d{14,15}(\@.+)*$/

Hello Tim,

try this instead:

<Handler User-Name = "/^1\d{14,15}(\@.+)*$/">

That is, the value must be within double quotes since it contains a comma.

It can also be simplified a bit too:

<Handler User-Name = "/^1\d{14,15}(@.+)*$/">

> But my log file is throwing out "ERR: Bad attribute=value pair:
> 15}(\@.+)*$/", so it looks like Radiator is hitting the comma and trying
> to parse the rest of the regex as a regular "Check-Item=Value".

Yes, that's correct. The reference manual says Handler's checklist is
formatted the same as check items e.g., in file. The 'Check and Reply
items' section says that values with commas require double quotes.

> I changed my regex to:
> 
> /^1\d{14}(\@.+)*$|^1\d{15}(\@.+)*$/
> 
> which is working for me now.
>
> Is this a bug in the parsing of the regex, or have I misunderstood the
> formatting for variable-length repeating characters?

I think it works as intended and with the double quotes you can make it
work as you originally thought. The regexp looks fine.

Thanks,
Heikki

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