From: Basil Abou El-Komboz <michael.zombok@googlemail.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Fancy-Split / Regexp question
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:20:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sousjin9nat.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ipjk6kun.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:29:52 +0100")
Hi,
("subject" ".*\\[ab-cd-ef\\].* "news.ab-cd-ef")
works fine. Thank you both for your suggestions!
Best,
Michael
Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:
> michael.zombok@googlemail.com writes:
>
> Hi Michael,
>
>> I am trying hard to setup a fancy-splitting-rule for a mailing list.
>> The 'tag' in the subject header of the mails I want to catch is
>> '[ab-cd-ef]' (including the braces) but I don't get it. I tried
>> various versions without success. What is the correct syntax?
>>
>> (any ".*\\[ab-cd-ef\\].*" "news.ab-cd-ef")
>
> Syntactically, this regex is correct, i.e., it matches only the string
> containing "[ab-cd-ef]". You can omit the two ".*", though.
No, you cannot omit ".*", because fancy splitting matches on word
boundaries, and [ ] aren't word characters.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 6:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-06 7:01 michael.zombok
2012-02-06 14:08 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-02-06 15:29 ` Andreas Schwab
2012-02-07 6:20 ` Basil Abou El-Komboz [this message]
2012-02-07 15:39 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-07 20:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2012-02-07 22:34 ` Ted Zlatanov
2012-02-08 8:23 ` Tassilo Horn
2012-02-11 16:26 ` Daniel Dehennin
2012-02-13 17:18 ` Ted Zlatanov
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