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author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2005-10-31 03:45:11 +0000 |
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committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2005-10-31 03:45:11 +0000 |
commit | aa01054c6aea6fda157338f1b49c9e5c878bd30a (patch) | |
tree | 3f815c6f4c3d56f70e650e2336e8fe86a8375725 /doc | |
parent | 1ed8d400ff56485986dbdd3c4041237bf85d7d8b (diff) |
Improve the description of "contains" and "matches" a bit.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=16371
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/ethereal-filter.pod.template | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ethereal-filter.pod.template b/doc/ethereal-filter.pod.template index 77a79a6cea..f4b2956474 100644 --- a/doc/ethereal-filter.pod.template +++ b/doc/ethereal-filter.pod.template @@ -55,13 +55,15 @@ C-like symbols: =head2 Search and match operators -Additional operators exist expressed only in English, not C-like: +Additional operators exist expressed only in English, not C-like syntax: contains Does the protocol, field or slice contain a value - matches Does the text string match the given Perl regular expression + matches Does the protocol or text string match the given Perl + regular expression The "contains" operator allows a filter to search for a sequence of -characters or bytes. For example, to search for a given HTTP +characters, expressed as a string (quoted or unquoted), or bytes, +expressed as a byte array. For example, to search for a given HTTP URL in a capture, the following filter can be used: http contains "http://www.ethereal.com" |