[wellylug] Procmail recipie problem

[Stephen Judd]

On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 22:42, Ewen McNeill wrote:
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> >- poor font choices make it easy to accidentally mix up \w and \W, \s and \S.
> 
> And these special patterns pretty much only work in perl anyway.  Some 
> programs expose POSIX style special patterns (eg, sed, awk, on some
> platforms), such as [:digit:], and yet others do their own thing (and a
> few don't even bother at all).

Hmmm. In the last week I have used both Python and Tcl regexes, and they
definitely support these.

> The "?" flag as a suffix to mean "don't be greedy" is a perl special
> extension AFAIK;

Ditto.

>  where it's not available you have to write a better
> (read: more complicated) regex instead, to prevent the greedy match from
> working (eg, I often use [^>] when matching SGML/HTML/XML like tags,
> to prevent matching outside the tag boundary).

It's a kitty with its head cocked!

oops

stephen