Werk #1625: Safely handle characters that have a special meaning in regexes when creating service-specific rules

Component Setup
Title Safely handle characters that have a special meaning in regexes when creating service-specific rules
Date Dec 4, 2014
Level Trivial Change
Class Bug Fix
Compatibility Compatible - no manual interaction needed
Checkmk versions & editions
1.2.6b1 Checkmk Raw (CRE), Checkmk Enterprise (CEE), Checkmk MSP (CME)

When you click an icon or button for creating a service specific rule in WATO then characters, that have a special meaning in regular expressions, are now correctly escaped with backslashes. These characters are: (, ), ., ^, $, [, ], {, }, + and *

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