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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2005-10-31 03:45:11 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2005-10-31 03:45:11 +0000
commitaa01054c6aea6fda157338f1b49c9e5c878bd30a (patch)
tree3f815c6f4c3d56f70e650e2336e8fe86a8375725 /doc
parent1ed8d400ff56485986dbdd3c4041237bf85d7d8b (diff)
Improve the description of "contains" and "matches" a bit.
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@@ -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"