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Message-ID: <20110812100829.GA6829@openwall.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2011 14:08:29 +0400
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: User-defined character class

On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 12:01:40PM +0200, magnum wrote:
> On 2011-08-11 01:42, magnum wrote:
> >It did not. This one does what I intended (not that it is very useful):
> >
> >%4?1vap2Aa"[\\0]x"
> >
> >That is, I had to decrement p by 2. That was a bit unintuitive to me but
> >I'm sure there are clever thoughts behind it (it use to be).
> 
> Fwiw it won't work as intended with all words anyway. The %N will hit 
> even if the hexdigits are spread with other characters inbetween. I 
> guess I just picked a bad example.

You never explained what effect you wanted to achieve with this rule.
Maybe someone else will be able to suggest how to achieve it.

Alexander

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