> however, i thought of a really sneaky cheat, that is almost correct. since > \n is 0a, and we almost never see 09 or 0b (ht and vt), we could build a > sneaky character class to elude the parser: > > data matches 'error[ -]' > plumb start window
i didn't think hard enough about mailers mangling this. what i had was data matches 'error[0x09-0x11] of course, replace 0x09 and 0x11 with their literal codepoints. - erik
