N.J. Mann <njm(_at_)njm(_dot_)f2s(_dot_)com> wrote:
Mike Peeler wrote:
You don't need to count, you only need to know if the filename occurs.
True for my example, but in the real recipe there are actually over 180
different pathnames. I had never used scoring before and thought this
was a chance to give it a try. It also seemed the easiest way of doing
a very long logical OR.
Scoring magic in wide use to do an OR:
* 9876543210^0 ^Subject:.*\<ports/x11/xterm( |$)
As soon as the score goes off the top of the scale, it short-circuits.
To avoid re-grepping for the subject line 180 times, you could extract
the subject; while you're at it, you can shorthand the overflow score:
GO = 9876543210
SUBJ
:0
* $ ^Subject:(.*\<)?\/.*
{ SUBJ = $MATCH }
:0
* $ $GO^0 SUBJ ?? ()\<ports/x11/xterm( |$)
Looking over that incantation, I'm almost taken aback how many doodads
it uses. But there's a real reason for every jot and tittle.
* ^Subject:.*\<ports/x11/xterm( |$)
This seems to work quite well: I haven't had any false positives so far
and have had lots of true positives since I switched to your suggestion.
Many thanks.
You're sure welcome. -mdp
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