Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> wrote:
>> to my scan arguments, and it's close, but not yet what I want.
>> Ideally, I just want what's in <> of the List-Id:, and I'd be happy with
the
>> first 16 characters only. But I can't see a way to get that. So I'd
settle
>> for the last 16 bytes of the entire header, but I can't get that either.
> Hmmm. I just looked at regcomp()/regexec(), and it sure seems pretty easy
> to make a format function that could do a regular expression substitution
> on the str register. Like ...
> %(void{list-id})%(regsub /<\([^.]+\)/[\1]/)
> Would do what you want, I'd think. I can't promise that would appear soon
> but it at least it doesn't seem hard.
yes, I think it would work.
if there was something to treat the header as From/To:-like (while not
insisting on presence of @) and just pull out whatever was in <>, if there
was something, that might actually work better, as if there is no "<", then
it would just return the string that was there.
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