The Regex Coach Re: regex question (hopefully an easy solution?)

Andrew said:
> Hi Everyone...
>
> This question is a follow up from my previous one (hopefully someone can
> help :) )
>
> 1) if I do
>   deny message = Dangerous HTML tags in message ($regex_match_string)
>     regex = <script>
...

> But it also doesn't match :( - If I do this with grep and egrep it
> matches.  I have spent ages looking online with regex manuals trying to
> find if it is a special character, but no luck :( -
>
> Can anyone give me some advice? I feel I am 99% of the way there....
> just that last little 'push'.

If you are not good with regex, get a tool to help you "see" it ...

http://weitz.de/regex-coach/

This is a windows tool that lets you set up regex patterns and see how
they work against certain strings.

It is free.