From: David W. Tamkin
Clever, Dallman.
DRYRUN = -0.00001 # de minimus negative decimal number
Wouldn't -1 do just as well?
Yes, certainly. I should have mentioned that I use the
very small negative number for other things, too, that I
also call $DRYRUN. So here it was simple to just plug in
my existing definition. But, yes, any negative number
(that's nowhere near procmail's "minus infinity") is fine,
as you understood.
More generally:
DRYRUN = -0.00001 # de minimus negative decimal number
ALIST = "choco:vanilla" # a list that will be reparsed
:0
* $ $DRYRUN^0 ALIST ?? ^^\/[^:]+
* 9876543210^0 one condition
* $ $DRYRUN^0 ALIST ?? :\/.+^^
* 9876543210^0 alternative condition
$MATCH
The limitation is that the various desired actions must be
all saves to folders or all writes to commands; you can't
have some of both. Also, the same colon-line flags must
apply to both or all possible evaluations of the action line.
Yes, again.[1] Well said.
[1] Hmm, but I can think of a way to have different types of
actions, too! That is, if we allow fake actions via "?" conditions.
Example:
DRYRUN = -1 # some negative number
MYACTION_LST = ':foo:gzip -fc9 >> bar.gz:$SENDMAIL $SENDMAILFLAGS
me(_at_)elsewhere(_dot_)com'
MATCH
:0:
* $ $DRYRUN^0 MYACTION_LST ?? $\MATCH:\/[^:]+
* 9876543210^0 condition
* $ $DRYRUN^0 MYACTION_LST ?? $\MATCH:\/[^:]+
* 9876543210^0 alternative condition
* $ $DRYRUN^0 MYACTION_LST ?? $\MATCH:\/[^:]+
* 9876543210^0 third alternative condition
* $ ? "$MATCH"
{ }
:0 E:
$MATCH
In this example, we sometimes end up with a useless lockfile;
and if saving to a file ("foo", the first item in the list),
we actually do the save in the second, else, recipe. But
it was fun to create this. :-)
Dallman
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