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Extracting a word from the Subject Line

1996-09-10 16:35:51
I know there must a simple solution for this that
can be integrated into a .procmailrc script, but 
whatever it is eludes me and I have wasted the last
12 hours hacking and scouring the Web to no avail.

We have a mail message containing the header

Subject:  Much Big News #1234xxx

In a .procmailrc script, we have...

TOPIC = `formail -x Subject|sed 's/[ ][^ ]*$//'`

$TOPIC now equals "Much Big News" and we have stripped
off the "#1234xxx"

But how do you get that last word (which happens to be
a password) into a variable using sed???  What I need
is to be able to do something like

KEYWORD = `formail -x Subject|sed '???'`

...so that $KEYWORD will equal "#1234xxx" or better yet,
$KEYWORD will equal "1234xxx" (without the "#" trigger)

Any help will be greatly appreciated...

Richard De A'Morelli
Spectrum Virtual U

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