From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich@gmail.com>
Cc: ding@lists.math.uh.edu
Subject: Re: nnimap-split-fancy: regexp ".*" matches less than expected
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2018 11:09:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8on9ydh.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87po3br1k1.fsf@gmail.com> (Chris Marusich's message of "Fri, 06 Apr 2018 23:08:30 -0700")
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 ".*".
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-07 9:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-07 6:08 Chris Marusich
2018-04-07 9:09 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2018-04-07 17:03 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-07 18:31 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-08 18:55 ` Chris Marusich
2018-04-08 19:49 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-04-10 0:14 ` Dan Christensen
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