Re: nnimap-split-fancy: regexp ".*" matches less than expected

[Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca>]

On Apr  8, 2018, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>
>> On Apr 06 2018, Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> This is the same as before, but I've replaced "gnucash-user" with ".*".
>>> I expected the same result as before, but Gnus surprised me.  Instead,
>>> gnus-summary-respool-query says:
>>>
>>>   This message would go to list.user
>>>
>>> and gnus-summary-respool-trace says:
>>>
>>>   ("cc" "\\(.*\\)@gnucash.org" "list.\\1")
>>>   "list.\\1"
>>>
>>> In this case, why does the ".*" match "user" instead of "gnucash-user"?
>>
>> I think that happens because the actual regexp used for searching is
>> "\\(\\(FIELD\\):.*\\)\\<\\(VALUE\\)\\>", note the embedded ".*".
>
> I've tried to figure out a good way to accomplish what I want, but I'm
> stuck.

Does it help to put a literal space character at the start of your
regexp, like " \\(.*\\)@gnucash.org"?

I'm not sure what "\\<" and "\\>" are doing in the constructed regexp,
but if they are matching literal "<" and ">" characters, then this
probably won't work.

Dan