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. 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?
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]
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