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Subject: Re: help with regex to filter non-ascii characters...
Date: 11 Oct 2002 13:35:42 -0600
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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.
> 
> -- 
> Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
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