But that is not what I want to do. I want to extract the 911, not
what is left behind it.
\/ does not provide that solution...
-----Original Message-----
From: Serge Koudrya <serge7(_at_)usa(_dot_)net>
To: Mathias Koerber <mathias(_at_)staff(_dot_)singnet(_dot_)com(_dot_)sg>
Cc: procmail(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de
<procmail(_at_)informatik(_dot_)rwth-aachen(_dot_)de>
Date: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 8:19 PM
Subject: Re: extract part of subjkect line into variable?
|Hello Mathias,
|
|you wrote:
|
|MK> Is there an easy way to extract part of the Subject line
|MK> into a variable in procmail?
|
|MK> Example:
|MK> Subject: [xx] re: test
|
|MK> I would like to assign the "xx" in the squarebrackets into a variable.
|
|
| Here's the solution provided by Philip Guenther
<guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu>:
|
|Chuck Campbell <campbell(_at_)neosoft(_dot_)com> writes:
|>I've looked deeper (at old messages and threads I have saved) and none of
|>them have either the In-Reply-To or References headers, so I am assuming
|>that the addition of "[911] " to the front of the subject line is the
|>culprit.
|>
|>How can I get procmail to strip this when handling mail from this list?
|
| # Extact everything in the Subject: header after the "[911] "
| # and use formail to make that the new Subject:
| :0 fhw
| * ^Subject: *\[911\] \/.*
| |formail -I"Subject: $MATCH"
|
|
|Best regards,
| Serge mailto:serge7(_at_)usa(_dot_)net
|
|