Re: help with regex to filter non-ascii characters...

Re: help with regex to filter non-ascii characters...

[Ed]

Please tell me a little more.

I'm trying to test regexps all the time.

I do M-x Re-builder and get a buffer with a pair of quotes. Do I type
my regexp there? What does it act on?

I can't figure out how to work it. How about a hint?

Thanks!

Ed

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:

> Ed <ed@telestoconsulting.com> writes:
> 
> > Incidently, how does one test a regexp?
> 
> Try `M-x re-builder'.  A nice tool for testing regexps.

Re: help with regex to filter non-ascii characters...

[Ed]

Sorry Ian, you lost me. Can you explain a little more what you mean?

And how do I see the raw message text? I am using the nnml back end.

Thanks!

Ed


Ian Zimmerman <itz@speakeasy.org> writes:

> Ed> Basically I want to ditch anything with 5 or more non-ascii
> Ed> characters in a row. Here's what I am using:
> 
> Ed> [^a-z0-9A-Z]\{5,\}
> 
> Ed> But this does not seem to do the trick. The header above didn't
> Ed> get caught by the above regular expression by Gnus.
> 
> Perhaps because it was encoded per RFC 1342 or its successors?  Try to
> look at the raw message text (easy if you use nnml, somewhat harder
> with other formats :)
> 
> AFAIK, Gnus will show the decoded form to human eyes, but the pattern
> matching is done on the encoded form.
> 
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