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4.1.1 Regular Expressions

Request matching directives use POSIX extended regular expressions by default. If pound was compiled with PCRE or PCRE2 library, Perl-compatible regular expressions can be used instead. This can be done either globally or individually for a given directive.

To change regular expression type globally, use the following directive:

RegexType pcre

It affects all request matching directives that appear after it in the configuration file, until next RegexType directive or end of file, whichever occurs first. To change back to POSIX regular expressions, use posix argument:

RegexType posix

Argument to the RegexType directive is case-insensitive.

Regular expression type can also be selected individually for a directive, using -posix or -pcre flags. For example:

Host -pcre -icase "(?<!www\\.)example.org"