Re: mbox quoting (was: Re: Gnus, movemail, POP3, trailing empty lines)

[Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>]

>>>>> "Per" == Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

Per> Sudish Joseph <sudish@mindspring.com> writes:

>> Why Randal couldn't munge all his mailboxes into either format in one
>> line of Perl is beyond me. :)

Per> Because information is lost for messages stored with the old
Per> algorithm.   You can easily remove the extra quoting performed by the
Per> new algorithm, like this

Per> 	s/^>(>*From )/\1/

Per> but I cannot see why anyone would want to do that.

No, that's not cool enough:

	s/^>(?=>*From )//;

New positive lookahead feature.  Very cool, literally "replace this >
with nothing *only* when it is followed by >*From".

And yours should have had $1 on right, not \1.  Oh well. :-)

Enough perl.  Back to ding-ing around.

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