Re: Bug in useradmin module?

[<ra...@si...>]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Jamie Cameron wrote:

> ra...@si... wrote:
> >
> >   I found out recently that regular expressions while searching for users
> > stopped functioning.  This apparently is due to the "\Q" and "\E"
> > directives for the matching expression.  I don't recall these directives
> > for regular expressions, and they prevent any regexp matching.  Is this a
> > bug in the module, or do I need to upgrade my PERL and PERL knowlege?
>
> It's sort of a feature in webmin 0.970. I previous versions, doing searches
> for usernames like  joe+fred  would not produce the results that people
> unfamiliar with regular expressions expected. That's why I put in the \Q
> and \E to make the username search field a substring rather than a
> regular expression.
>
>  - Jamie
>


  I applaud any feature that makes things work better (the fact that I
continue to applaud Webmin should speak for that).  Unfortunately, on my
Solaris 8 system running 0.970, it doesn't find "randyf+root", nor will it
produce the list of all users whose names begin with r (^r).  The
"matches" argument will only match items where all the characters in the
what string appropriately match the field (though this may not be a bug,
I personally think the RE approach is better).

  Of course, maybe the right answer here is to either enhance the search
capabilities, or include a "Search by RE" button.  In fact, I think that
is the fix that I will apply (interested in the patch code?).

  BTW, one of the reasons that I so much like Webmin, is because if I
would prefer behavior to be a little different, I can "make it so".


rf