[wellylug] Procmail recipie problem

[Jamie Dobbs]

> I don't know procmail, but if it does regexes like other Unixy things,
> that last asterisk is a quantifier which applies the thing preceding it;
> ie in this case, the group in parentheses. Thus you are saying "match
> seek or jobstuff or monster, zero or more times". Which is going to
> match everything, since everything contains seek or jobstuff or monster
> at leats zero times.
> 
> ;-)
> 
> I imagine that simply adding a "." after the right parenthesis will work
> for you.
> 
> [sorry for the smartarse tone, but it is kind of funny.]
> 
> Stephen
> 
Thanks for that Stephen, it worked fine. (and I didn't read your tone as
smartarse at all).
Obviously this shows I need to do some reading up on regexes - can
anyone recommend a resource for this (preferably one that I can print
and read).