Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:01:40 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> To: Drew Tomlinson <drew@mykitchentable.net> Cc: frank@shute.org.uk, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Regex Help For Procmail Message-ID: <4C860D84.6080502@bah.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <4C852907.5000303@mykitchentable.net> References: <4C814262.5060504@mykitchentable.net> <4C814634.1000003@gmail.com> <4C8164C7.9000107@mykitchentable.net> <4C83C65B.6060508@mykitchentable.net> <20100905205910.GA82375@orange.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4c84216f.w2295Zjs25%2BGOe/F%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <4C852907.5000303@mykitchentable.net>
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2010-09-06 19:46, Drew Tomlinson skrev: > On 9/5/2010 4:02 PM, perryh@pluto.rain.com wrote: >> Frank Shute<frank@shute.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Drew, try this: >>> >>> * ^From:.*famous-smoke\.com >>> >>> I think it's not catching it because the period isn't backslash >>> escaped ... >> Unless there's some edge case that I'm not thinking of, adding a >> backslash to escape a period will never convert a non-match into >> a match. An unescaped period in an RE matches any character, >> including a period. An escaped period matches only a period. > > I have confirmed this. I did add the backslash but procmail is still not > matching. > >> Adding the backslash _does_ better represent what the OP wants >> to accomplish, but the lack of it is not the cause of the RE not >> matching. (I'm not sufficiently familiar with how procmail uses >> REs to figure out what _is_ causing it not to match.) > > True and thus I'll leave the backslash. However I have no idea what _is_ > causing it not to match either. I'm stumped. I think it is the dash. Try to escape it like so: * ^From:.*famous\-smoke\.com > Thanks, > > Drew >
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