Re: Followup on egrep regex problem...

Dear Jim,

You wrote:
>  What's wrong with matching "anything except double-quote, semi-colon,
> or whitespace" with [^";XXX] where "XXX" is your favorite set of space,
> tab, ^M, etc.? 

I again want to ask how one goes about getting "your favorite set of 
space, tab, ^M, etc." into the bracket expression?

Using nano on the host machine via a ssh session, I seem to be able to 
type in a tab character inside the [^"; <tab>] and at least it doesn't 
break anything badly enough to prevent the recipe from working. 

(I would have to create a test message where the string was delimited 
by a tab character to prove that it actually *works*!)

But since escaped control characters (\t,\n, etc.) don't seem to be 
allowed inside the [...] of a character class in procmail, just what 
sort of syntax am I allowed to use? What would it look like?

Would I have to use variables, perhaps?

Thank you,

Mike D.