[vdr] Re: Feature Request: Timers by Regular Expressions

[Hannes Stein <hannsens@macnews.de>]

Hi,

Am 13.07.2004 um 12:27 schrieb Philip Lawatsch:
> I'd like to be able to specify a timer with a regular expression on 
> the name of the show.
VDRAdmin is able to use regular expressions - but the coder sais you 
shouldn't use ist, despite you know what wou're doing:

>  "I advise you not to use any regular expressions in the AutoTimer, 
> never!
>  There is absolutely *no* syntax check for the regexp! Leave a stray
>  brace and see vdradmin dying (because of a perl syntax error), or 
> enter
>  something like "/.*/" to beam the entire EPG into the timer list and 
> watch
>  VDR dying under the tons of timers.
>  Don't write bug reports if a regexp has filled your harddisk to the 
> very
>  last bit, messed your timer list or killed your VDR: I told you not 
> to use
> regular expressions! Don't even think about it!"
> (VDRAdmin Release Notes)
Hannes