Tips on writing regular expressions for searching the post list
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by obvious » Wed Jul 04, 2001 11:33 am
LAST EDITED ON 07-04-01 AT 10:34 AM (EST) Hi,
I understand there are changes in 3.32B3 with regard regular expression parsing. I'm trying to do a global exclude based on substring search within file/subject name.
Lets say I wanted to download any post with "fred" in the subject line. I would previously add "*fred*" to the 'accept matching subjects' list.
How would I do that now?
Thanks in advance
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http://www.djii.com/cgi-bin/dcforum/dcb ... DCForumID7
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by Quade » Wed Jul 04, 2001 11:52 am
Just add "fred" without the quotes. It'll match anywhere in the filename. You might or might not want this in the subject filter since it will match anywhere. It'll match a subject like:
"fred likes his bikini - bikini.jpg"
You could require a file extension appear in the subject though with something like
fred.*[.]jpg
fred.*[.]avi
fred.*[.]
It would still match bikini
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by obvious » Sun Jul 08, 2001 9:28 pm
Adding "fred" without the quotes works in the filename filter but seems not to in the subject filter.
Just feedback. I know you are working on it
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