>-----Original Message----- >From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2005 10:44 AM >Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org >Subject: RE: Rule-sets > > >From: Ron McKeating [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> On Thu, 2005-04-07 at 12:27 +0100, Gray, Richard wrote: >> > > > Thanks to all the replied, we have rules_du_jour and I am now >> > > > getting an idea of how it works. I suppose the obvious >question is >> > > > has anybody written a good howto on writing your own >rules. And if >> > > > so where is it? >> > > >> > >> > You probably also want to learn more about regular expressions too. >> > There Was a lot of stuff that I didn't know before I >started doing this. > >> > >> > In particular, useful things like back chaining and >forward referencing >> > are useful to understand. >> > >> > I wish I could tell you I had found a good site or book >about it, but I >> > haven't. If you do find one, would you let me know? >> > >> >> I use mastering regular expressions by O'Reilly > >Seconded. Excellent book. > >Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl >Published by O'Reilly > >I found it when I was learning Perl. It has lots of generic >RE stuff as >well as a whole chapter (100 pages) on Perl specifics.
Most of my Perl knowledge comes from Theo's random signitures! ;) --Chris (Larry who?)
