Re: extract part of subjkect line into variable?

Mathias Koerber writes:
> 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...
 Something like (untested)

:0h
* ^Subject:[    ]*\[911\]
NINE_ELEVEN=| sed 's,^Subject:[         ]*\[\(.*\)\].*$,\1,'

 maybe? The [ ] after Subject: contain a space and a tab.