Adam Grove asked,
| > [But] I really wanted to match the truncated body against various
| > scoring recipes rather than true/false tests. Is there a way of
| > doing this?
Era Eriksson answered,
| Sure you can.
|
| :0
| * $ 1^1 toplines ?? pattern
| * $ 1^1 toplines ?? pattern2
| :
| etc
Took the words right out of my mouth.
| If you actually go ahead and implement a recipe generator, that would
| remove the obstacles involved with using recipes such as
|
| :0
| * ^^\/.(.)?(.)?(.)?(.)?(.)? [... etc ...] (.)?$\
| (.)?(.)?(.)?(.)?(.)?(.)? [... etc ...] (.)?$?\
| (.)?(.)?(.)?(.)?(.)?(.)? [... etc ...] (.)?$?\
| :
|
| Of course, anything like this is going to hit LINEBUF long before the
| message you are actually trying to look at :-)
It will hit LINEBUF a lot later if you take out all those parentheses.
"(.)?" and ".?" are equivalent.