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Regex Issue

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Hey Everyone,

 

I am having an issue that I can't explain.  I am building a signature to match on IP addresses in the X-Forwarded-For Http header.  what I have come up with is this: "For: 1\.2\.[3-4]\..*"  This is working well, but I am having an issue with certain ranges I have one that is "For: x\.x\.[176-179]\..*"  this throws an invalid pattern error and I have it narrowed down to the actual range of 176-179.  If I switch that to be [170-179] it accepts the pattern fine.  Has anyone seen this issue before?  If so how did you fix it?

 

Thanks,

Dave

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the [] operators do not work the way you think in regex.

 

[170-179] means "1, or 7, or a number between 0 and 1 inclusive, or 7 or 9"

therefore, [176-179] means "1, or 7, or a number between 6 and 1 inclusive (this is invalid), or 7, or 9

 

put another way, the [] operators mean "one of these characters"

 

to match numbers between 176 and 179, inclusive you should have "17[6-9]"

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L4 Transporter

the [] operators do not work the way you think in regex.

 

[170-179] means "1, or 7, or a number between 0 and 1 inclusive, or 7 or 9"

therefore, [176-179] means "1, or 7, or a number between 6 and 1 inclusive (this is invalid), or 7, or 9

 

put another way, the [] operators mean "one of these characters"

 

to match numbers between 176 and 179, inclusive you should have "17[6-9]"

Thank you for the answer.  I figured it out just this morning as well.  There is another option which is to use hex in place of the integers so that 176-179 becomes [\xB0-B3\x]

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