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Re: Escaping exclamation, greater than, less than inside of a recipe

2003-10-27 13:31:24
As it was written on Oct 27, thus Gerald V. Livingston II typed:

Gerald:  On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:12:42 -0500 (EST) Birl 
<sbirl(_at_)concept(_dot_)ocis(_dot_)temple(_dot_)edu> wrote:
Gerald:
Gerald:  > When I searched "escape exclamation", I read David Tamkin's answer 
here:
Gerald:  > 
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2003-01/msg00466.html
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  > So when I entered this recipe:
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  >      # Catch false HTML comments
Gerald:  >      :0 B:
Gerald:  >      * <!....>
Gerald:  >      .SPAM/false_HTML_comments
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  > My logs spewed the following:
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  > procmail: Skipped "!....>"
Gerald:  > procmail: No match on "<!....>"
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  > Im curious as to why.
Gerald:
Gerald:  Re-read David's answer that you linked to above. Comparing your recipe 
to
Gerald:  his answer makes it (REALLY) obvious why it isn't working.


Thus Homer said, "D'OH!".   Damn my selective reading.

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