Re: Regular Expressions in Message Finder

2017-11-13 Thread Tony Hoare
Hello MFPA, Saturday, November 11, 2017, 1:37:27 PM, you wrote: > TB!'s help entry for "Regular Expressions" says:- > The Bat! allows the use of regular expressions in these places: > Message Editor > Message Finder > Sorting Office / Filters

Re: Regular Expressions in Message Finder

2017-11-11 Thread MFPA
Hi On Wednesday 8 November 2017 at 7:17:41 PM, in <mid:404457361.20171108191...@parkinch.co.uk>, Tony Hoare wrote:- > Hi All, > Does anyone know if the search boxes support regex > terms and, if so, how-to and what syntax? TB!'s help entry for "Regular Expressions&qu

Regular Expressions in Message Finder

2017-11-08 Thread Tony Hoare
Hi All, Does anyone know if the search boxes support regex terms and, if so, how-to and what syntax? -- Best regards, Tony mailto:t...@parkinch.co.uk Current version is 7.1 | 'Using TBUDL' information:

SOT: music for testing files with regular expressions [was Re: txt2html.regexps]

2006-09-30 Thread Mary Bull
Hello Richard! On Saturday, September 30, 2006, 8:18 AM, you wrote, in re Mary Bull's comment on what Alexander Kunz remarked to her on TBOT when she said she was afraid of destroying her fragile Bat if she put the txt2html.regexps file into its directory: MB I told Alex to his face that he's a

Re: Recommendation for Regular Expressions

2004-06-21 Thread Alexander Gladilin
Hello, Russell! RLF Before you get to the text, does anyone know why this RLF message, which originally was sent in html format was bounced? RLF I've now changed it to all text. I think. It's because of list rules, I think. I have sent one message to this list with an example in attach (less

Recommendation for Regular Expressions

2004-06-20 Thread Russell L. Farabee
Hello All, Before you get to the text, does anyone know why this message, which originally was sent in html format was bounced? I've now changed it to all text. I think. I meant to mention this earlier when I was fighting my way through macros, filters and regular expressions. For those

Testing Regular Expressions

2004-02-22 Thread Allen
This may be a bit off topic, I apologize if it bothers anyone, but I've only recently discovered a tool that is quite handy with regard to creating regular expressions. It is similar to the RegEx tester that you can install in the TB help file (as outlined at the TB FAQ

Re: Testing Regular Expressions

2004-02-22 Thread MAU
Hello Allen, snipped a bit For those on the list who use regular expressions a good bit, this tool ought to come in quite handy. http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ Thank you. Looks very nice for those of us who are not proficient with Regex. -- Best regards, Miguel A. Urech (El Escorial

Re: Testing Regular Expressions

2004-02-22 Thread dAniel hAhler
Hello Allen, on Sun, 22. Feb 2004 at 14:18:52 -0500 you wrote: A http://www.weitz.de/regex-coach/ Indeed, very great program! Must have been some Regex-tutorial which recommended it and I use it for the more complex rules. Thanks to your note I now got the update and the mailinglist

Re: Regular expressions

2002-11-01 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Robin, My MUA believes 'The Bat! (v1.62/Beta7) Personal' was used to write mid:682621529.20021101101628;netspace.net.au on Thursday, October 31, 2002 at 6:16:28 PM. RA TBUDL members RA I am keen to try to come to grips with TB's regex capability. However RA when I looked to the help file I

Regular expressions

2002-10-31 Thread Robin Anson
TBUDL members I am keen to try to come to grips with TB's regex capability. However when I looked to the help file I decided that, like most manuals, its good to remind you of what you already know, but not much use for a beginner. Can anyone point me to a resource that would be a useful

Re: Regular expressions

2002-10-31 Thread Marck D Pearlstone
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Robin, 1-Nov-2002, 10:16 +1100 (23:16 UK time) Robin Anson [RA] in mid:682621529.20021101101628;netspace.net.au said: RA Can anyone point me to a resource that would be a useful RA starting point? Have you seen the FAQ? There is a great tutorial

Re: Regular expressions

2002-10-31 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hello Robin, On Fri, 1 Nov 2002 10:16:28 +1100 GMT (01/11/02, 06:16 +0700 GMT), Robin Anson wrote: I am keen to try to come to grips with TB's regex capability. However when I looked to the help file I decided that, like most manuals, its good to remind you of what you already know, but not

Re[2]: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-29 Thread Jamie Dainton
Hello Brian Clark, On Sun, 28 Jan 2001 23:03:24 -0500 GMT your local time, which was Monday, January 29, 2001, 4:03:24 AM (GMT+0100) (BST) my local time, Brian Clark wrote: GE A later chapter in that book describes Regex in Perl. AFAIK TB is GE written in Perl, so this book should describe

Re[3]: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-29 Thread Lija
Hello Jamie, On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, at 08:17:36 (your local time), you wrote: GE A later chapter in that book describes Regex in Perl. AFAIK TB is GE written in Perl, so this book should describe Regex the way TB GE likes it. BC No, TB! is written in Delphi (5?). JD Delphi 2. As listed in the

Re[2]: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-29 Thread Tim Musson
Hey Gerd, Sunday, January 28, 2001, 4:35:50 AM, you wrote: GD Can anyone recommend a good book to learn regular expressions? I GD think someone in this forum recommend the book from O'Reilly. I had O'Reilly's _Mastering Regular Expressions_ (Owl book) for over a year, but I've only read half

Re: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-28 Thread Gerd Ewald
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Brian Clark ! On Sat, 27 Jan 2001 22:22:39 -0500 GMT your local time, which was 28.01.2001, 04:22 (GMT+0100) where I live, you wrote: GD Can anyone recommend a good book to learn regular expressions? I GD think someone in this forum

Re: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-28 Thread A . Curtis Martin
NoteTab Pro. Forte' Agent uses them as well as Gravity ... news readers. There are a host of specialist search and replace tools available, most if not all of which use regular expressions. - -- @~@@~@ | A. Curtis Martin [List Moderator TB(UDL

Re[2]: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-28 Thread Jan Rifkinson
Hello Allie, On Sunday, January 28, 2001 19:18:01 [ -0500 GMT], you wrote the following in regards to 'Books to learn regular expressions?': Allie My text editor, TextPad uses them. I use TextPad; what do you mean by this? -- Jan Rifkinson Ridgefield, CT USA Using TB! v1.49 ICQ 41116329

Re: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-28 Thread Marck D. Pearlstone
to the fact that TextPad (which I also use) makes use of regular expressions in "Find", "Find/replace" and "Find in Files". - -- Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA / TBTECH

Re: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-28 Thread Brian Clark
Hello Josh, (JR == "Josh Rogers") [EMAIL PROTECTED] engraved: JR What other applications is there for regex other than in TB? I JR understand Perl uses them, but anything else? There are a ton of Unix/Linux tools that can use regular expressions. In Windows, EditPlus ca

Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-27 Thread Gerry Doyon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, Can anyone recommend a good book to learn regular expressions? I think someone in this forum recommend the book from O'Reilly. Which books comes closest to the syntax used for TB!? Thanks! - -- Best regards, - - Gerry Doyon

Re: Books to learn regular expressions?

2001-01-27 Thread Brian Clark
Hello Gerry, (GD == "Gerry Doyon") [EMAIL PROTECTED] inscribed: GD Can anyone recommend a good book to learn regular expressions? I GD think someone in this forum recommend the book from O'Reilly. I had O'Reilly's _Mastering Regular Expressions_ (Owl book) for over a year, but I've

Re: Regular expressions

2000-11-04 Thread Patrice Neff
On 04 Nov 2000, Peter Steiner wrote: Strictly speaking, it _is_ correct. If you look what exactly is written in the MIME-munged subject, you see that in front of the 'Ich' is a =A0, which is a 'hard space' (in HTML-speak: nbsp;). So it just looks like too much spaces, but there really is only

Re: Regular expressions

2000-11-04 Thread Peter Steiner
Hello Patrice On Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:57:08 +0100, Patrice Neff wrote: PN How can you insert this =a0 manually in The Bat? Either by pressing Alt-0160 or by copying it from charmap.exe... PN And last but not least: Can you tell me where to find more PN information about this mime-encoding?

Regular expressions

2000-11-03 Thread Patrice Neff
Hi all, I'm using a regular expression for building the reply-subject: | |%Subject="Re: %SetPattRegExp=""(?i)\A\:?((\s*(re|aw|ha|rcpt|fw|fwd|forw|antwort)(\[\d*\])?:\s*)*)(\s*)(.*?)(\s*\z)""%RegExpBlindMatch=""%OSubj""%SubPatt=""6""" (I've found this expression and have optimized it for my

Re: External editor (was OT: Regular Expressions)

2000-10-06 Thread Luca
05/10/2000, A . Curtis Martin: I meant PMMail http://www.blueprintsoftware.com/ and not PMail (Pegasus Mail). Ups ... I'll take a look. Thanx. -- Luca -- -- View the TBUDL archive at http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com To

Re: External editor (was OT: Regular Expressions)

2000-10-05 Thread Luca
05/10/2000, A . Curtis Martin: It depends. They may chose to support another editor as plugin, where it will indeed be integrated as a part of TB. However, if TB! will support you using any editor of your choice ity will only provide convenient hooks to fire up your editor I myself like

Re: External editor (was OT: Regular Expressions)

2000-10-05 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 12:36:47 +0200, Luca wrote: PMMail offers external editor support. L Since when? I'm surprised, I gave up with Pegasus about two years ago L when, among the other things, lots of people were asking loud for L external editor

External editor (was OT: Regular Expressions)

2000-10-04 Thread Luca
13/09/2000, Peter Steiner: And yes, i'm eagerly awaiting the possibility to use Emacs as an external editor from within TB! ... When this will hopefully be possible, what is supposed to happen when I write a message? I mean, will I see my favourite editor working within a TB window, with TB's

Re: External editor (was OT: Regular Expressions)

2000-10-04 Thread A . Curtis Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 4 Oct 2000 12:51:47 +0200, Luca wrote: L When this will hopefully be possible, what is supposed to happen when L I write a message? I mean, will I see my favourite editor working L within a TB window, with TB's menus, toolbar and all, or will it open L

Re: Regular expressions and Filtering

2000-09-26 Thread Marcel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Januk, On Tuesday, September 26, 2000, Januk Aggarwal wrote: JA I count four instances of xoom.com. Create a filter with the JA following and see if it works most of the time: JA String Location Presence JA

Regular expressions and Filtering

2000-09-25 Thread Marcel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi everyone, Perhaps I've missed a message about filtering using RegExps, but since I got the hang of using this great feature, I managed to create a real puzzle for myself. :( As soon as I discovered the power of RegExps I decided that I could use

Re: Regular expressions and Filtering

2000-09-25 Thread Januk Aggarwal
matches exactly the From: in the Kludges. (I tried it using a QuickTemplate) Well, the syntax for regular expressions in templates and in filters are slightly different. In Templates you are trying to capture part of a string, so you have to use the macros. But in the filters, you are trying to simply

Re: Regular expressions and Filtering

2000-09-25 Thread Marcel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Januk, On Tuesday, September 26, 2000, Januk Aggarwal wrote: JA If I remember right, don't they always put Xoom.com in their subject JA field? It has been a while since I've been spammed by them, but if JA I'm right, you could just search on

Re: Regular expressions and Filtering

2000-09-25 Thread Januk Aggarwal
ch message. Remember, if you do not select regexp, the search string will match any string with the filter line as a substring. In terms of regular expressions, the filter string I suggested above will match (?i).*xoom\.com.* Good luck and happy filtering. -- Thanks for writing, Januk Aggarwal

Re: Regular Expressions

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, September 12, 2000, 1:34:40 PM, A wrote: OTOH, most RE experts claim that you'll find uses for RE's that you never imagined would be relevant to your situation and work, once you learn how to use them. While others will point out

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 2:16:56 AM, Markus wrote: You may hit me, but in certain way even MS Word knows REs in Search and Replace. Somehow I doubt that if I told Word to do something like the following in vim it would know what to do or

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 12:35:06 PM, Peter wrote: one, i'm just used to it). And yes, i'm eagerly awaiting the possibility to use Emacs as an external editor from within TB! ... Never understood the drive to use Emacs as an external

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tuesday, September 12, 2000, 1:48:02 PM, Nick wrote: Do you know any other applications, as an example, that you can use regular expressions with? I've never fell across them before TB! and was wondering if it's just a case of tunnel vision on my

OT: Why not Emacs for mail and news (was Re: OT: Regular Expressions)

2000-09-15 Thread Peter Steiner
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 10:45:05 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: SL Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 12:35:06 PM, Peter wrote: one, i'm just used to it). And yes, i'm eagerly awaiting the possibility to use Emacs as an external editor from within TB! ... SL Never understood the drive to use Emacs as

Re: OT: Why not Emacs for mail and news (was Re: OT: Regular Expressions)

2000-09-15 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Friday, September 15, 2000, 11:30:25 AM, Peter wrote: and found TB! for mail. I've not bothered again to try newer versions of gnus, i like the GUI of TB! (or many parts of it, there is always room for improvements) Agreed. ;) - --

Re: Regular Expressions

2000-09-13 Thread Thomas Fernandez
Hi Arnie, On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:35:49 -0400GMT (13/09/2000, 00:35 +0800GMT), Arnie wrote: A A little while ago I posted a question regarding extracting text from from a received message to be put into a reply. It seems that Regular A Expressions are the way to go. Can anybody recommend a

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-13 Thread Markus Gloede
Hi, Nick Danger wrote: Do you know any other applications, as an example, that you can use regular expressions with? You may hit me, but in certain way even MS Word knows REs in Search and Replace. Regards, Markus Using The Bat! 1.46 Beta/5 under Windows NT 4.0 Build 1381 Service Pack 5

Re[2]: Regular Expressions

2000-09-13 Thread Arnie
Hi Allie, Yow! I think I've opened a can of worms. Something tells me I'm going to be spending alot of free time on this. I think I have a lot of fascination/frustration ahead of me. I've ordered "Mastering Regular Expressions" but while waiting for it to arrive I have a simp

Re[2]: Regular Expressions

2000-09-13 Thread Arnie
Hi Thomas, Thanks for the tip. A little more confusion, a little more knowledge. It seems to be a very powerful concept. -- Best regards, Arnie Wednesday, September 13, 2000, 2:27:49 AM, you wrote: TF Hi Arnie, TF On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 12:35:49 -0400GMT

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-13 Thread Peter Steiner
Hello Nick On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:48:02 -0500, Nick Danger wrote: ND Do you know any other applications, as an example, that you can use ND regular expressions with? I've never fell across them before TB! and ND was wondering if it's just a case of tunnel vision on my part. Like ND when I

Regular Expressions

2000-09-12 Thread Arnie
Hi all (and as always thanks in advance), A little while ago I posted a question regarding extracting text from from a received message to be put into a reply. It seems that Regular Expressions are the way to go. Can anybody recommend a good book or site that goes into RE's in detail

Re: Regular Expressions

2000-09-12 Thread A . Curtis Martin
in detail? The howto was helpful but I think A I need examples to fully grasp the concepts. I've been interested in learning regular expressions myself for some time and have battled with some applications help files, including TB!. All of them have one thing on common in that they all give a cursory

OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-12 Thread Nick Danger
In Reference to "Regular Expressions" From A . Curtis Martin: " A OTOH, most RE experts claim that you'll find uses for RE's that you A never imagined would be relevant to your situation and work, once you A learn how to use them. Allie, Do you know any other applications

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-12 Thread A . Curtis Martin
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 15:48:02 -0500, Nick Danger wrote: ND Do you know any other applications, as an example, that you can use ND regular expressions with? I've never fell across them before TB! and ND was wondering if it's just a case of tunnel vision on my part. Like ND when I can't find

Re: OT: Regular Expressions

2000-09-12 Thread Cricket
Hello Nick, Tuesday, September 12, 2000, 4:48:02 PM, you wrote: ND In Reference to "Regular Expressions" From A . Curtis Martin: " A OTOH, most RE experts claim that you'll find uses for RE's that you A never imagined would be relevant to your situation and work, once you A l

Exapmples of nice usage of regular expressions...

1999-12-20 Thread Max Masyutin
Hello TBUDL! There were some exapmples of nice usage of regular expressions, could someone prepare a digest or even send his own examples. I plan to include it to the help so everybody could see and use the advantages. -- Max Masyutin, Software Engineer RIT Research Labs http

Regular Expressions Tutorial

1999-12-01 Thread Paula Ford
Hello All, Here's a little tutorial on regular expressions that a fellow did for Gravity users, if anyone is interested. http://www.naplesfl.net/~tbates/gravity/reg-100.html -- Paula Ford The Bat! 1.36 (reg) Windows 95 4.0 Build 950

Re: Regular Expressions Tutorial

1999-12-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Wednesday, December 01, 1999, 10:09:22 PM, Paula wrote: Here's a little tutorial on regular expressions that a fellow did for Gravity users, if anyone is interested. http://www.naplesfl.net/~tbates/gravity/reg-100.html Just wanted to point out that it is good for the general concepts