[leafnode-list] Re: Why does this filter not work

Gary R. Schmidt grschmidt at acm.org
Sun Jul 9 08:40:50 CEST 2017


On 09/07/2017 11:30, Cecil Westerhof wrote:
> I try to clean up my comp.lang.python. For this I call:
>      applyfilter comp.lang.python
> 
> One of my filters is:
>      ^Subject:.*[ _]NAZISTA[ _]
> 
> There is a message which contains:
>      Subject: PUTTANA NAZISTA MONICA LONGERI
> 
> So I would expect this message to be filtered, but it is not. What is going
> wrong here?
> 
Should the filter not be:
	^Subject:.*[ _]NAZISTA[ _].*
In order to match lines that don't end with a '_' or ' '?

	Cheers,
		Gary	B-)


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