Re: Understanding within

[James Lay <jlay () slave-tothe-box net>]

On 2012-08-15 11:19, lists () packetmail net wrote:
> On 08/15/12 12:13, James Lay wrote:
> > I know I'm missing something (no surprise there), but not sure
> > what...any help would uh...help :)  Thanks!
>
> Check out
>
> http://blog.joelesler.net/2010/03/offset-depth-distance-and-within.html
>
> Your within value must also account for the byte size of the content
> match itself.
>
> content:"bleh"; content:"bleh again"; within:30;
>
> The above means there can be 20 bytes between "bleh" and "bleh 
> again".



Thank you.  A question I have is do we treat pcre as a...."content"?

content:"ick"; pcre:/"bleh"/"; within:30;

saying that there can be 30 bytes between "ick" and "bleh"?  Or how 
does pcre fit in the scheme of content?  Danke :)

James

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