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Re: Can somebody help debug this particular procmail recipe?

1997-06-07 15:17:00
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997 14:18:56 -0700,
rem(_at_)one-o(_dot_)com (Robert E. Maas) wrote:
One of the recipes in rc.shun1 looks like this:
:0:
* ^Received:.*199\.0\.233\.3[\]\)]
                               ^^^^^
This looks to me like backslash [\] followed by close paren \)
followed by close bracket.

  * ^Received:.*199\.0\.233\.3[]]\)

might have been what you intended to say; personally, I find []] to be
more confusing than \] (but I've probably spent too much of my life
staring at Perl regular expressions). 

If what you wanted to say was [])] then that would match +either+ a
close paren or a close bracket, but always only one character (which
is fine, too, I guess, actually, if you just watch out for
hypercorrect backslashing).

Hope this helps,

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