From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
Subject: Re: regexp filter
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 18:26:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoiju0yux2kn.fsf@frealaf.dd.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86ekpy290o.fsf@number6.magda.ca>
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\}$
--
Johan Bockgård
next parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-05 16:26 UTC|newest]
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2004-05-05 16:26 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2004-05-07 4:46 ` David Magda
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