Why is the regex format different between files?

[s22-tech]

Hey Mitchell,

I'm just curious why the format of the regex is different between the globalblacklist.conf and the blacklist-user-agents.conf

In globalblacklist.conf they are formatted as:

BrowserMatchNoCase "(?:\b)Scrapy(?:\b)" bad_bot

while in blacklist-user-agents.conf, they're formatted as:

BrowserMatchNoCase "^(.*?)(\bScrapy\b)(.*)$" bad_bot

Can either format be used? The reason I ask is that I prefer the format in globalblacklist.conf because when using a text editor like BBEdit, when double-clicking the agent, you only get the agent, i.e. Scrapy. But when selecting it in the other one, you end up with bScrapy selected.

Thanks,
Marc

[mitchellkrogza]

I think I just forgot to update the include files, first regex is better