On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 11:14:13 -0500, Jan Rifkinson wrote these
words of wisdom:
JR> The test filter rule I constructed is:
JR> string = ^[^JjAaNn] location = kludges present = no
JR> The regexp was meant to express:
JR> At the beginning of the string
JR> If not J (or) j followed by A (or) a followed by N (or) n
JR> is found in the kludges
JR> then send to "test" folder
JR> What's the matter with this simple regexp? TIA
^[^JjAaNn]
Well, you've only denoted a character class and the initial '^'
restricts the regex to matching only strings that start a new line in
the Kludges.
>From what you said above, it would seem that you want all messages that
do not have 'Jan' (case insensitive) in the Kludges moved to the test
folder. I assume you wouldn't want the expression to cover string
matches like:
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
^^^
Januk Aggarwal
^^^
"Michael S. Greenbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
^^^
Organization: Janus Books, Ltd.
^^^
By default filter associated regex's are case insensitive but an
expression that should work is (?i)\bjan\b|jan@\S*
It will however catch messages with a January date:
25 Jan 2000
^^^
To prevent this one could add:
(?!)(?<!\d\d\s)jan(?!\s\d{4})|jan@\S*
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