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Re: Extracting in an Alternation (Was Scoring Function Question)

1999-04-19 22:29:55
"David W. Tamkin" <dattier(_at_)Mcs(_dot_)Net> writes:
Can you give any details or examples of situations where it can be expected
to work and those where it cannot be expected to?

I could tell you, but then I would have to kill you.  No, wait, that's
the wrong story.

<pause>

I just tried to trip up procmail's regexp engine on various regexps
involving alternation and extraction, and I was unable to get it to to
do so.  So, right now, the only regexp which I know it fails on is the
one documented on the todo list and its direct relatives.  Any
pronouncements I've made about other regexps failing should therefore
be taken with a large grain of salt.  I thought I knew more than I
actually do.

Sigh...


Philip Guenther