Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] filter-expressions

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10 Apr 2002 22:27:53 -0500
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 14:31, Gilbert Ramirez wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 12:45, Guy Harris wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 12:19:20PM +0200, Tom Uijldert wrote:
> > > For WSP however, the name is "wap-wsp", which is a problem for the scanner,
> > > it cannot handle the hyphen.
> > > 
> > > So should the scanner be changed or should we re-baptise the WSP?
> > 
> > I'd vote for fixing the scanner, if possible.

Fixed.

> From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: Heikki Vatiainen <hessu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Stuff: CGMP over EthernetII, IS-IS virtual path fix and display filter problem
> Date: 23 Mar 2002 13:38:45 -0800

> 
> Gilbert, would it be possible to change the
> 
> 	[[:alnum:]_.:]+
> 
> Flex specification for field name/non-quoted string tokens to
> 
> 	[[:alnum:]_-.:]+
> 
> so that you *can* have hyphens in field names, IP addresses, and the
> like, without breaking the lexical analyzer's handling of [N-M]-style
> ranges?

Yes, it is. Luckily I designed the range patterns to be separate
from the field-name patterns (see the patterns starting with
<RANGE_INT> ?) 

thanks,

--gilbert