When I suggested,
| > One can extract the entirety and then extract pieces from there; it's not
| > as convenient as what James proposes, but with sufficient circumlocution it
| > can be done.
Alan Stebbens responded,
| That's the point, David: I shouldn't have to "circumlocute" procmail, I
| want to use it to increase *my* email productivity and efficiency.
| Computers should do more work, not humans.
No kidding, Alan. I never said that symptom relief was an acceptable substi-
tute for a true cure, only that some symptom relief exists.
[Another thing I never said is that there was any such verb as "to circum-
locute".]
For those of us who cannot turn the rain on and off at will, an umbrella is
a useful possession. But don't infer that I'm calling an umbrella a form of
weather control.
Multiple extractions from one regexp are not currently possible in one step.
Doing them in multiple steps is better than nothing but not nearly so good as
it would be to do them all in one step, ok?