"Luke" == Luke Davis <ldavis(_at_)voicenet(_dot_)com> writes:
Luke> * Does anyone know of a document, available on the net,
Luke> describing/presenting data about the use of regular expressions
Luke> as used in procmail, sed, etc.?
man 5 procmailrc
man sed (or vi, or even ed)
man 7 regex (not so sure about this one)
Luke> * I want to check the From:, and Reply-to: fields, for either
Luke> the contents of the var abc, or the var def... Will this do it?:
Luke> * $^(From:|Reply-to:).*(${abc}|${def})
Yes, it will work.
Luke> * I want to check the subject for the words "get file ",
Luke> followed by "pw=", and the contents of the "pw" var, then
Luke> nothing else but space/tabs... Will either of the following
Luke> work?:
Luke> * $^Subject:[ ]get file pw=${pw}[ ]*>
Replace the last > by \$, and it will work. You are better at regular
expressions than you think.
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