At 22:37 2003-02-27 +0530, Vikram Goyal wrote:
A VAR is set by reading a list from a file. EX. VAR=foo|bar|abra|cad|
I want to expand it in a recipe. Like:
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* ^To.*(${VAR}).*
'man procmailrc' is your friend. So is 'man procmailex'.
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* $ ^To:.*(${VAR})
Note three changes to your recipe:
Addition of '$' modifier flag to the condition line (see 'man procmailrc')
Addition of ':' header-field separator after 'To' - this makes it operate
ONLY on the To: field, not some bogus crap like "Togetherness: fubar" or
whatever (generally not a big concern, but unless you're trying to expand a
match against other headers, it's best to truncate the header
name). Failure to truncate certain header names sometimes leads to those
"why is my recipe matching this message - the To: field doesn't match
anything here" type queries.
Removal of '.*' from the tail end of the expression. It is wholly
unnecessary - you'd include it only for MATCH expressions where you're
trying to capture more of the text than what explicitly matches the more
detailed portion of your regexp.
I know the whole line after '*' is sent literally.
Sent where?
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