From: Martin McCarthy <marty(_at_)ancient-scotland(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk>
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:05:24 +0100
'*' says "match zero or more of the previous character". So "workz*"
matches 'w' 'o' 'r' 'k' 'zero or more zs'
Ahhhhhhh that makes sense!
You seem to half realise this as you use '.*' (to match zero or more of
any character) half the time and just '*' the other half of the time.
To do what you want you need to replace those trailing '*'s with '.*'.
Well, I wasn't sure. I've been copying other people's recipes and adapting
them, not writing any from scratch. The other recipes use the format of
surrounding the phrase with * so I kept it. I hadn't a clue what the
period meant. Those man pages aren't really written as a teaching tool.
Your changes are perfect and I'm going to go modify my .procmailrc file
right now.
Thanks so much!
Cyndi
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