Class regex?

[Simon Hobson]

Jason Gerfen wrote:
>Anyone why this class regex wouldn't match hardware addresses like these?
>
>match if binary-to-ascii (16,8,":",substring(hardware,0,8)) = "1:0:24:7E:09";
>
>00:24:7E:09:38:25
>00:24:7E:09:38:3D
>00:24:7E:09:37:F3

Mixing string and binary values. Hardware is only 7 bytes long for 
ethernet, and you are asking for 8 bytes !

I think you'd be better with :
match if substring(hardware,0,5) = 1:0:24:7E:09 ;

Ie, do a binary compare instead of converting to text and then 
comparing. And select a length that can actually match the value you 
provide.

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