Need help with House RSS Filters (Regular Expression)

hi, i need help with the rss filter for searching house but leaving out
desperate housewives and runs house. i've tried looking and reading up on
regular expressions and trying a few syntex but failed to get the results i
want. therefore i need help with coming up with the filter that would allow me
to search for house but discard if it contains desperate housewives and runs
house. thanks!

first need to know your client, second check out the rss tutorial there are
instructions for both azureus and utorrent. if you have utorrent, you just add
in the "not" box: *desperate housewives*|*runs house* it will filter those out.

house is, in fact, one of the examples i give in the table at the bottom of
the tutorial page (linked from the menu bar at top of the page here). 🙂

i'm presuming azureus, because utorrent's own built-in filter would already
distinguish between house, desperate ... , run's ... etc.

the regex given there for house doesn't seem to work with azureus; it's little
engine possibly doesn't like the \\s. this seems to work:

^house\\b

and fails on housewives (and obviously run's house).

not to be disrespectful of the magnificent iron fish, of course; i'm just saying
is all.

works here [tm]

it might be worth noting that it's the rss plugin that contains the regex
engine, not azureus itself. the reference plugin for the tutorial is `rss
feed scanner 1.3.4` there are others around that are not so well featured and
have less complete regex implementations. which plugin are you using ?

the \\b would work in most cases - it matches on a word boundary. `word` in
regex terms being a string of a-z alpha characters. this, however, means that
a non-alpha or numeric would also get matched.
\\s is a little stricter - it matches on a whitespace instead.

that's the one, rss feed scanner 1.3.4. i can't get it to test green with

^house\\s

but i can with

^house\\b

oh well.

if you choose to download via rss will it download all available episodes of
that show?

i want to schedule utorrent to download house but as there's more than one
version if i do that will it download all of them or just the type i want??

saw it after i posted, cheers

it's probably a feed dependent issue then.

some will render the title as "house s03e20 hdtv xvid-lol", some
as "house.s03e20.hdtv.xvid-lol"

the period will get matched by word boundary, but not by whitespace.

hmm... i've re-read the tutorial after posting this and saw the updated regular
expressions list at the bottom of the page. i am using azureus 2.5.0.4 with rss
feed scanner 1.3.4. really appreciate the alternative of using ^house/b, now it
works even if there was a period in the filename. thanks kurai and warren for
the invaluable insights. cheers!