Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Bug in ethereal 0.9.3

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 03:06:31 -0700
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 02:42:38AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> The parser for display filter expressions looks as if it supports a
> *comma-separated list* of ranges in slices - Gilbert, is that the case? 
> Does that mean that you could do
> 
> 	frame[1:2,8:2] == 16:88:42:41
> 
> to compare byte 1 with 16, byte 2 with 88, byte 8 with 42, and byte 9
> with 41?  If so, the man page should be updated.

No, it shouldn't, because it already says:

       You can create complex concatenations of slices using the
       comma operator:

               field[1,3-5,9:] == 01:03:04:05:09:0a:0b