Re[2]: custom quotes search criteria
Hi Peter In a post time stamped 21:40:15 +0200 re: "custom quotes search criteria" you wrote: Peter I have put together a regexp for the reply template that extracts the Peter name of the Sender: Peter onelongline Peter %SETPATTREGEXP='From: (\"?(.+?)\"? *|([-.\w]*)@)' Peter %REGEXPBLINDMATCH='%TEXT'%SUBPATT='2'%SUBPATT='3' Peter /onelongline Jan responds: As I mentioned in a prior post, the above works like a charm I thank you for it. I'm including another digest sample to illustrate what I'm now trying to do, alas unsuccessfully. -|| original digest-style msg ||- There are 2 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Trying to register Ecco Toolkit From: "Jefferson French" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Strange sync behavior with Palm IIIx From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message: 1 Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:03:31 - From: "Jefferson French" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Trying to register Ecco Toolkit the web and email contact info in the documentation are no longer valid. -|| End digest-style Msg ||- Jan continues: So I select Jefferson French's msg want to reply to it in a personal way via macro. Thanks to the line you created below, I'm able to lift his name from the selected text place it in a folder customized a reply macro. Peter %SETPATTREGEXP='From: (\"?(.+?)\"? *|([-.\w]*)@)' Peter %REGEXPBLINDMATCH='%TEXT'%SUBPATT='2'%SUBPATT='3' Jan continues: However I'd also like to be able to pull out the subject of the above selected msg [Trying to register Ecco Toolkit] instead of the digest subj line "[EccoPro] Digest " I've tried the following expression without success: %setpattregexp='Subject: ((\d\D\n$%)%regexpQUOTES) thinking that: 1.%setpattregexp would look for a pattern within the selected text 2.the pattern would look for "Subject" 3.then accept any letter or any digit following "Subject" ending only at a new line 4. paste it in the reply template. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks. Regards, Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: custom quotes search criteria
Hi Peter In a post time stamped 21:40:15 +0200 re: "custom quotes search criteria" you wrote: Peter On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 17:37:45 -0400, Jan Rifkinson wrote: JRMy goal is to lift "David" or "David Frye" from the msg JRpossibly the "Date info" as well to reply to. JR -|| original digest message ||- JR Message: 1 JRDate: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:49:37 -0400 JRFrom: "David Frye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] JR Subject: Re: Digest Number 752/itching JR My girls have been having an itching problem for several weeks JR -|| End Digest Msg ||- Peter I have put together a regexp for the reply template that extracts the Peter name of the Sender: Peter onelongline Peter %SETPATTREGEXP='From: (\"?(.+?)\"? *|([-.\w]*)@)' Peter %REGEXPBLINDMATCH='%TEXT'%SUBPATT='2'%SUBPATT='3' Peter /onelongline Peter It handles several forms of addresses: Peter From: name address@domain Peter From: "name" address@domain Peter From: address@domain Jan responds: Peter, this worked like a charm. What a gift you have given me. Now if I could just understand it. It's not your explanation was not clear, its just that its all so new to me. I thought that if I could substitute the "From" pattern with "Subject:" that the expression would yield the subject from the copied text rather than yielding the Digest subject like Digest #543 or whatever. Alas, no such luck. I don't think I understand what you are saying below. For example, what are the "RE's" you reference? It looks like you are saying that I can use the %CLIPBOARD to replace the %TEXT expression but as the text is already selected by selecting the text from the digest, this isn't clear to me. What I'm trying to figure out is why I can't use the same REGEXP [substituting "subject" for "From"] to retrieve the subject matter in the clipped portion of the msg as long as I don't select more than one "from" one "subject" which I wouldn't do anyway. Peter And i tried the %clipboard, it seems to work. So you could replace in Peter the RE's for the name and the date %TEXT with %CLIPBOARD, put another Peter regexp for quoting the text (this one using %TEXT) into you r reply Peter template. Then you would have to select and copy the From: and Date: Peter line and then select the part of the text you want to quote and press Peter F4. Very complicated... Jan responds: This is amazing stuff I have to figure out (1) how to educate myself (2) decide whether or not I'll ever get it. I like TheBat! because it is so customizable but if I can't figure out how to do it, I won't be able to take advantage of this feature. Again, thanks so much for your help with this. What this does is to allow me [or anyone] to subscribe to digests be able to respond to individual msgs in a personal way. This is a tremendous help to me for sure. Regards, Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: custom quotes search criteria
Hi BatListers, In a post timestamped 14:21:21 +0100 re: custom quotes search criteria Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: JR Is there a way to customize the quotes on a folder instead of JR globally? I ask because when answering individual msgs, JR customizing to initials or names is great but when answering JR a digest, it makes less sense. Marck Yes - you can use the %QUOTESTYLE= macro in the reply template to do Marck this. JR Along the same lines - digest format vs. individual msgs - is JR it possible to search quote on specific text? An example of JR this would be pulling out the name text after "from" in a JR digest to insert in a reply quick macro. Marck With regular expressions, yes. This would mean a small programming Marck feat however. Jan responds: Thanks for this help. I played around with the %QUOTESTYLE= macro. I used the "=TEXT" variable but the best I could produce was an accurate quote style on the first line of the quoted text. The rest of the quote style was based on the global choice. As for pulling the name text after "from" in a digest, would this process not become easier within a selected portion of text, i.e. text in the clipboard which would generally include only one name? If this is so, how would I apply a regular expression to selected text? Regards, Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: custom quotes search criteria
Hi BatListers, In a post timestamped 23:34:05 +0800 re: "custom quotes search criteria" Thomas Fernandez wrote: Thomas In another account, I use: Thomas %quotestyle="%SETPATTREGEXP='([a-zA-Z]*)@'%REGEXPMATCH='%OFromAddr'"%Quotes Jan responds: so let's see if I can interpret this correctly: %quotestyle tells TB! to watch for defined text =%SETPATTREGEXP tells TB! to set the text based on the search criteria to follow =([a-zA-Z]*)@ is the search criteria which = anything preceding "@" starting with any lower or upper case letter %REGEXMATCH macro looks for this in the style text in the '%OFromAddr'info %Quotes = the text quoted Why do you put dbl quotes ["] around the entire %Quotestyle statement? Thomas In your case it is the same as %OFName, but in my company, it isn't. Thomas Point I'm making: you can use RegEx in %Quotestyle, and it still Thomas works. :-) Jan responds: Thanks Thomas. I find this especially interesting as I am trying to figure out how to select a from "name" from selected text in a digest I'm wondering if some expanded variation of the above macro can be used for this purpose. BTW, I figured out what I was doing wrong with the %QUOTESTYLE=I thank you for that also. Although I reviewed the macro list from TB!Help before asking this questions of the list, I couldn't figure it out. I'm not a programmer; maybe that's a part of my problem. Regards, Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: custom quotes search criteria
Hello Marck On 27 September 2000, at 16:37, you wrote JR As for pulling the name text after "from" in a digest, JR would this process not become easier within a selected JR portion of text, i.e. text in the clipboard which would JR generally include only one name? If this is so, how JR would I apply a regular expression to selected text? MDP I don't think you can. You can perform a regexp on the quotable text MDP or the headers or the original text but not the clipboard. I'm pleased to hear that. I've been looking in the Help files and searched through the FAQ but can't find anything that explains how I would set up a regex to handle quotable text. What I want to achieve is this: place the cursor after the first paragraph of the quoted text when composing a reply. I'd appreciate any offers of help with this one. TIA -- have a good day Charlie (ceejay) -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: custom quotes search criteria
Hi BatListers, In a post timestamped 20:07:54 +0200 re: "custom quotes search criteria" Peter Steiner wrote: Peter On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:37:25 +0100, Marck D. Pearlstone wrote: JR As for pulling the name text after "from" in a digest, JR would this process not become easier within a selected JR portion of text, i.e. text in the clipboard which would JR generally include only one name? If this is so, how JR would I apply a regular expression to selected text? MDP I don't think you can. You can perform a regexp on the quotable text MDP or the headers or the original text but not the clipboard. Peter I've never tried, but %REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%CLIPBOARD" should apply a Peter regexp to the clipboard. Or am i mixing up things? Jan responds: Thanks for the thought, Peter. H. I sure as heck don't know the answer to this but if it were to work, might it instead be a search for the text after the word "From:" in the %QUOTECLIPBOARD text since I'd be working from a digest of msgs? Regards, Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: custom quotes search criteria
Dear Marck, Thanks for your email. On Wednesday, September 27, 2000 re: "custom quotes search criteria" Marck wrote: JR As for pulling the name text after "from" in a digest, JR would this process not become easier within a selected JR portion of text, i.e. text in the clipboard which would JR generally include only one name? If this is so, how JR would I apply a regular expression to selected text? Marck I don't think you can. You can perform a regexp on the quotable text Marck or the headers or the original text but not the clipboard. Jan responds: So, if I understand you, this means I might be able to accomplish what I want from the quoted text if I include the From: information in the %QUOTEd portion from the digest which is something I do as a matter of course unless I want to rcv individual msgs. -- Regards, Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
Re[2]: custom quotes search criteria
Hi BatListers, In a post timestamped 22:02:07 +0200 re: "custom quotes search criteria" Peter Steiner wrote: Peter On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 14:45:55 -0400, Jan Rifkinson wrote: JR As for pulling the name text after "from" in a digest, JR would this process not become easier within a selected JR portion of text, i.e. text in the clipboard which would JR generally include only one name? If this is so, how JR would I apply a regular expression to selected text? MDP I don't think you can. You can perform a regexp on the quotable text MDP or the headers or the original text but not the clipboard. Peter I've never tried, but %REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%CLIPBOARD" should apply a Peter regexp to the clipboard. Or am i mixing up things? JR Jan responds: Thanks for the thought, Peter. H. I JR sure as heck don't know the answer to this but if it JR were to work, might it instead be a search for the text JR after the word "From:" in the %QUOTECLIPBOARD text since JR I'd be working from a digest of msgs? Peter I don't know the exact format of a digest, but assuming standard Peter format (From: username [EMAIL PROTECTED]), my first try would be Peter (if you wanted the address part): Peter %SETPATTREGEXP='From:( +|.+)([a-zA-Z]*)@'%REGEXPBLINDMATCH='%CLIPBOARD'%SUBPATT='2' Peter For the %CLIPBOARD macro to work, you would not only have to select the Peter text, but also copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl-C). And note that the Peter part matching the address is simple, it doesn't match addresses Peter containing digits, dot or other special characters. Jan responds: Peter, thanks for the suggestion. Here's a sample of a Bouvier digest msg (Bouviers are dogs) that I clipped. I put your suggested string in a reply template for this digest. Then I copied ^c this msg from the digest including the "from" line, Then I used F4 to reply got the following error msg. *** Error: nothing to repeat *** My goal is to lift "David" or "David Frye" from the msg possibly the "Date info" as well to reply to. Thanks so much for your thoughts on this. This process is like panning for gold in the US Northwest in 1935. -|| original digest message ||- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 06:49:37 -0400 From: "David Frye" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Digest Number 752/itching My girls have been having an itching problem for several weeks, usually worst after going outside. I found a benadryl tablet helps. When the weather cools off my girls should get better. -|| End Digest Msg ||- Regards, Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To send a message to the list moderation team double click here: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe from TBUDL, double click here and send the message: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- You are subscribed as : archive@jab.org
