Re: Recipe Dissection

> As I remember, this is supposed to be a complete recipe; so where is
> the closing parenthesis for
>
>
>  9876543210^0 ^^(.+$)*Subject:[       ]*____(____([(<]no(ne| subject\
>
> the marked left paren supposed to go?

I think it matches the right paren marked here:

     $(.+$)*(^[  ]*)+____)____?(archives?:?([    ]|$)|\

Here's a structured view of that RE, where I've replaced literal
parens and angle brackets with X:

(.+$)*Subject:[	 ]*
(
	([XX]no(ne| subject( (Xfile transmission|given))?)[XX])?$
	(.+$)*
	(^[	 ]*)+
)?
(
	archives?:?([	 ]|$)|
	((send|get)(me)?|gimme|retrieve|mail|ls|dir(ectory)?|list|show|search|[fe]?grep|find|maxfiles|version)
	([	 ]+[^	 ]*)?$
)

-cary