> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Sep 7 14:24:56 2010 > Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:01:40 +0200 > From: Bernt Hansson <be...@bah.homeip.net> > To: Drew Tomlinson <d...@mykitchentable.net> > Cc: fr...@shute.org.uk, per...@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Regex Help For Procmail > > 2010-09-06 19:46, Drew Tomlinson skrev: > > On 9/5/2010 4:02 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >> Frank Shute<fr...@shute.org.uk> wrote: > >> > >>> Drew, try this: > >>> > >>> * ^From:.*famous-smoke\.com > >>> > >>> I think it's not catching it because the period isn't backslash > >>> escaped ... > >> Unless there's some edge case that I'm not thinking of, adding a > >> backslash to escape a period will never convert a non-match into > >> a match. An unescaped period in an RE matches any character, > >> including a period. An escaped period matches only a period. > > > > I have confirmed this. I did add the backslash but procmail is still not > > matching. > > > >> Adding the backslash _does_ better represent what the OP wants > >> to accomplish, but the lack of it is not the cause of the RE not > >> matching. (I'm not sufficiently familiar with how procmail uses > >> REs to figure out what _is_ causing it not to match.) > > > > True and thus I'll leave the backslash. However I have no idea what _is_ > > causing it not to match either. I'm stumped. > > I think it is the dash.
Nope. dashes are 'special' *ONLY within a 'character class' (i.e., within square brackets). > Try to escape it like so: > > * ^From:.*famous\-smoke\.com > Z. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
