Re: Do Regex Character Classes Work in SLRN Score File?

"John E. Davis" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.slrn.user
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Paul Burton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Score:: -9000 %Off Topic
>   Subject: \c[[:space:]][^[:alnum:]]?O\.?T\.?[^[:alnum:]]?[[:space:]]
>   Subject: \cRe.*[[:space:]][^[:alnum:]]?O\.?T\.?[^[:alnum:]]?[[:space:]]

These REs are not supported.  The slang REs were written more than 15
years ago based upon an Ultrix ex man page and have have not really
changed much since then.  After 0.9.9 is released, I plan to migrate
to the onigurama RE library.  I do not want to use the PCRE library
because its support for UTF-8 is not very robust.  

With that said, I believe that your last RE can be written as

  Subject: \c^Re\C.*[ \t][^a-z0-9]?O\.?T\.?[^a-z0-9]?[ \t]

Note that I added '^' before "Re" to anchor the RE to the beginning of
the subject field. You can find out what REs the slang library
supports at <http://www.jedsoft.org/slang/doc/html/slang-22.html#ss22.1>.

--John

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