Re: Bug in useradmin module?

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

ra...@si... wrote:
> 
> 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?).

Nice idea .. in the next release, I will have options for 'matches' and
'contains' to use when searching for users. What way people who don't
understand regexps can use the 'contains' option, and experts can search
by regexp :)

 - Jamie