The format appears to be that the asterisk is used as the "bullet"
character of the paragraph, with all subsequent paragraph text indented.
Perhaps your second method below would be better because of this? All of
the text I want to delete is consistently ahead of the first occurence of
an asterisk.
Could you send a sample? There are still several ways to interpret your
description. Is the bulleting asterisk flush left or is it a space or two
away from the left margin? What separator is there between paragraphs?
Those are two questions I asked before that remain unanswered, so I think
the best way is to show us a sample.
OK. See below for a forwarded sample. Forwarding only those paragraphs that
begin with asterisks would be the most efficient use of the pager's limited
message length.
We don't have to worry about excess text at the end, the paging company's system
simply trunkates any text beyond 200 characters prior to transmission.
Another question: I see you are sending a copy to the pager and apparently
keeping the original in your email storage. Do you want the copy that you
store also to be filtered down to only the asterisked paragraphs, or do you
want that copy to remain whole while you filter only the copy to be forwarded
to your pager?
I would like to keep the original intact, and only filter the pager forwarded
copy. Being new to procmail, I prefer to be able to see what my original
messages
look like, before any pager filtering, so I can more easily study and
experiment.
Thanks to you and Era for all your help.
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WIC111-082340-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN WI
544 PM CDT TUE JUN 8 1999
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MILWAUKEE/SULLIVAN HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SAUK COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL WISCONSIN
* UNTIL 640 PM CDT
* AT 544 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR LONE ROCK...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT
20 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BEAR VALLEY AT 547 PM CDT
PLAIN AT 555 PM CDT
SPRING GREEN AT 600 PM CDT
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