* Re: regexp filter
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@ 2004-05-05 16:26 ` Johan Bockgård
2004-05-07 4:46 ` David Magda
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From: Johan Bockgård @ 2004-05-05 16:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
David Magda <dmagda+trace040423@ee.ryerson.ca> writes:
> Trying to setup use a filter (through 'L') to get rid of common span
> in Usenet. Specifically, I'm trying to get rid of spam with subject
> line like the following:
>
> Britney Spears and justin timberlake 8272
>
> So I do a key sequence of L-> s -> r -> t. When asked for the string
> I tried ".* [:digit:]{4}" as well as ".* [0-9]{4}" (throwing in a $
> at the end would also make the regexp more precise). I also tried
> escaping the spaces ('\ ').
.* [[:digit:]]\{4\}$
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Johan Bockgård
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