Mike Maughan sent the message below at 06:28 PM 3/22/2007:

On 23/03/07, Mark Sapiro <msapiro@value.net> wrote:

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^subject:\s*(\(no[_ ]subject\))?\s*$

Thanks for the fix & the explanation. Do you know, that's the first time I've actually understood a pattern search regex? Wunderbar! :) ---------------- End original message. ---------------------

Learning regular expression construction is not an easy thing beyond the basic stuff.

A tool I use to help me interactively develop and test complex regex strings is the Rx toolkit in Active State's Komodo development environment (Komodo handles Perl, Python, PHP, Java and a few other languages).

You can try it free and a personal license is pretty cheap. http://www.activestate.com/

I don't work for them, I just love the software because it has made my script programming a lot easier.

Dragon

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