On Thu, 10 Apr 1997, Eli the Bearded wrote:
Philip Guenther <guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu> replied to me:
engine with egrep. What egrep? There are many versions. Here are
The _original_ egrep: extended, but not bloated, regexps. In newer
Thank you for your message.
The first thing I noticed about procmail was its
weak regex implementation. You did a good job of
pointing out some of the considerations.
I'd really like to see, for version 4 for example,
true backreferences, instead of the uninteresting $MATCH \/
construction. I would not expect a full perl implementation
but why couldn't procmail actually use egrep or something?
Perhaps I am missing something fundamental... is there an
easy way to *use* perl or egrep instead of the * line in
a recipe?
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