Delimiters in @pm, @within, etc.

[marcstern]

For operators supporting a list of parameters (pm, within), it would be very useful to allow to choose the delimiter.
For example, there is no way to use @pm with the string "a b c".
Remark: "a|20|b|20|c" does not work, which is for me a bug.

I propose to use the first non-alphanumeric character after @pm as a separator.
Ex. using / as separator: @pm/Sharepoint Active-X Upload Control
Pipe (|) should probably be refused because of the snort syntax.

[marcstern]

Any news on this?

[quenenni]

I'm also interested in this feature.

How can I put:

• the good
• the bad
• the ugly
  in a pm action.
  As "3. The @pm operator phrases do not support metacharacters. ", I don't see how I can do this.

I could try to use an external file and use pmf, but there is still the #1167 issue to resolve/understand.