Re: How to match '[' in nnmail-split-fancy

[Nevin Kapur <nevin@jhu.edu>]

On Sun, 01 Apr 2001, Kai Großjohann wrote:

> On 01 Apr 2001, Nevin Kapur wrote:
> 
>> I'm having trouble matching the character '[' in
>> nnmail-split-fancy. I have the following split rule:
>> 
>> 	("subject" "\\[.+\\] *$" "junk")
> 
> Fancy splitting matches on word boundaries, but `[' can never be the
> start of a word, so you lose.  Try ".*\\[.+\\] *$", note the initial
> `.*'. 

It looks to me like fancy splitting matches on word boundaries at the
*end* of words, i.e., the above regexp produces

^\\(\\(subject\\):.*\\)\\(\\[.+\\] *$\\)\\>

in nnmail-fancy-split. I can't think of any way to match ']' (or for
that matter any other character that is not a legal word boundary) at the
end of the string with this restriction.

Perhaps someone with better regexp skills than me can help...

-- 
Nevin