RE: Pattern Matching in users file

Which says you *can* use them. It doesn't say you *can'*t use anything else.

Thanks Alan. As always, I appreciate you taking the time to offer your insight. Currently, the Wiki, README and sample file only mention the example of testing username using prefix/suffix. If a more generic statement of purpose for hints existed, then I would have taken the information about username testing in the Wiki, the README and the sample file as just an example. I haven't found anything, other than your enlightening response to my question that describes the overall purpose of hints (i.e., that it can add request attributes based upon the value of an existing request attribute). Did I miss something?