From af46cd0e4f6ed194f2661b70ea83e5c7ab5c6e77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Steven Hiscocks <steven@hiscocks.me.uk>
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2013 11:34:10 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] ENH: fail2ban-regex now sorts date templates, similar to
 actual filters

Sort occurs every 10 lines, as to not overly effect performance
---
 fail2ban-regex | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fail2ban-regex b/fail2ban-regex
index e19b1bc9..ff4bbd10 100755
--- a/fail2ban-regex
+++ b/fail2ban-regex
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@ class Fail2banRegex(object):
 
 	def process(self, test_lines):
 
-		for line in test_lines:
+		for line_no, line in enumerate(test_lines):
 			if line.startswith('#') or not line.strip():
 				# skip comment and empty lines
 				continue
@@ -256,6 +256,9 @@ class Fail2banRegex(object):
 					self._line_stats.missed_lines.append(line)
 			self._line_stats.tested += 1
 
+			if line_no % 10 == 0:
+				self._filter.dateDetector.sortTemplate()
+
 	def printLines(self, ltype):
 		lstats = self._line_stats
 		assert(len(lstats.missed_lines) == lstats.tested - (lstats.matched + lstats.ignored))