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Subject: Re: 'nother split-fancy question
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On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 10:30:00 -0400 Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote: 

NW> Can anyone explain why this rule:

NW>   (to "carbon-emacs@googlegroups\\.com" "googlegroups.carbon-emacs")

NW> matches and works fine, but this rule:

NW>   (to "\\(.*\\)@googlegroups\\.com" "googlegroups.\\1")

NW> sends the message to "googlegroups." ?

I don't know.  I tested with:

(let ((a "tzz@googlegroups.com"))
  (when (string-match "\\(.*\\)@googlegroups\\.com" a)
    (debug (match-string 1 a))))

and got "tzz" so something is interfering with the matching.

Ted