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From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Why asterisks in nnmail-split-fancy rule?
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:38:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <84smqw444g.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hddn0h4tni8.fsf@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no>

Svend Tollak Munkejord <stm@bacchus.pvv.org> writes:

> From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Mike=20Foo?= <someaddress@yahoo.no>
>
> (This is a bit strange, since the name does not any øæå or other `special'
> characters).
>
> Is this the reason why I would need the ".*"s? I do not understand this,
> since the string "foo" is still there.

In the string "20Foo", F is not the beginning of a word, so the
string does not match "\\<Foo\\>".

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-30 19:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <hddk7c8vpwa.fsf@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no>
     [not found] ` <84znl46967.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
2003-05-30 15:53   ` Svend Tollak Munkejord
2003-05-30 15:57     ` Svend Tollak Munkejord
     [not found]       ` <hddn0h4tni8.fsf@bacchus.pvv.ntnu.no>
2003-05-30 19:38         ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-05-31 12:46           ` Svend Tollak Munkejord
     [not found]   ` <87ptm0edoa.fsf@mail.paradoxical.net>
2003-05-30 16:44     ` Kai Großjohann
     [not found]       ` <4nbrxk858v.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu>
     [not found]         ` <84he7b2yk9.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
     [not found]           ` <4nsmqv5nv8.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu>
     [not found]             ` <84d6hzdw4u.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
     [not found]               ` <4nof1i6duy.fsf@lockgroove.bwh.harvard.edu>
     [not found]                 ` <848yslraqf.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
     [not found]                   ` <u4r39li99.fsf@att.net>
     [not found]                     ` <84he783oju.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
     [not found]                       ` <uadd0a6wx.fsf@att.net>
     [not found]                         ` <84n0gzzo9b.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>
2003-06-04  0:07                           ` Michael R. Wolf
     [not found]                           ` <wc3vfvn9cr1.fsf@gamma.cis.ohio-state.edu>
2003-06-06 21:09                             ` Kai Großjohann

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