On Fri, 4 Jul 1997 21:52:01 +0300 (EET DST), I wrote:
On Fri, 4 Jul 97 11:31 EDT,
process(_at_)qz(_dot_)little-neck(_dot_)ny(_dot_)us
(Eli the Bearded) wrote:
era eriksson <era(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> wrote:
:0fhw
* ^\/Subject:[ ]*((re|fw|sv|betr|antw)( ?[[][0-9]+])?[-:>][ ]*)+
| ... some suitable program which does essentially \
sed "s/^$MATCH/Subject: /"
That is not quite what he wanted because he wished ones with an Re:
in the subject to continue to have an Re: in the subject. And sed
will not find a match when trying "^Subject: Re[4]: Re: " against
"Subject: Re[4]: Re: ". [] are metacharacters remember.
Much to my surprise, I find that there is actually a simple fix in
3.11pre4 and newer which I had not noticed: $\VAR will quote the
variable with magical characters escaped. However, it seems that this
helpful substitution will add a set of empty parens at the beginning
of the interpolated value. Duh. How do we solve that?
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