Re: novice question

era eriksson <era(_at_)iki(_dot_)fi> writes:
...
> Here's an interesting generalization which will read either of the two
> rc files, but only one of them, that is, the one that matches first
> (Procmail scans the body top to bottom, left to right): 
>
>    :0B
>    * \/(abcxyz|thistext)
>    { INCLUDERC=$MATCH }
That would be:

        :0
        * ()\/(abcxyz|thistext)
        { INCLUDERC = $MATCH }

You need the parens to protect the leading backslash from being ignored.


Philip Guenther