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. Hmmmm. 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?
I don't know the exact format of a digest, but assuming standard
format (From: username <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), my first try would be
(if you wanted the address part):
%SETPATTREGEXP='From:( +|.+<)([a-zA-Z]*)@'%REGEXPBLINDMATCH='%CLIPBOARD'%SUBPATT='2'
For the %CLIPBOARD macro to work, you would not only have to select the
text, but also copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl-C). And note that the
part matching the address is simple, it doesn't match addresses
containing digits, dot or other special characters.
Peter
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