On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 10:51 +0200, Paul J Stevens wrote: > > Aaron Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005, Paul J Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > > >>Hi guys, > >> > >>I'm exploring the usage of regexp?|pcre calls in dbmail. I'm working on > >>the fast threading code, but it'll come in handy in many other areas I > >>suspect. > > > > > > I'm not sure I understand the purpose of the regex library. For parsing > > certain headers? This makes sense for some of the more convoluted headers. > > No. It is pretty much required for getting at the base-subject as > required for SORT and THREAD (draft-ietf-imapext-sort-17).
No it's not. I [have] used: http://www.jwz.org/doc/threading.html to implement threading (same as in imapext-sort) without using regex at all. > > I'd say that PCRE is the way to go. > > I spent all day yesterday trying to build a rather complicated pattern > with regex. No good. With pcre, it's a breeze ... once you get the hang > of the api :-) If this is the only place we've got regex, then I'll be happy to rewrite it. -- Internet Connection High Quality Web Hosting http://www.internetconnection.net/
