Re: Procmail egrep regex problem...

Bart Schaefer <[email protected]> Fri, 05 Mar 2010 16:35:16 -0800

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On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Cary Coutant <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If I can even find out why "? doesn't reliably match an optional double
>> quote, I'd be much farther along. That's the first annoying failure.
>
> That is puzzling, but it's probably not the only bug in procmail's RE
> handling. If a ? (or * or +) immediately precedes \/, it seems to
> screw up the RE processing.

It's not a bug, it's intentional.  It's like using the *? operator in
perl, if you're familiar with that.