Hello Chris, On Wednesday, July 3, 2002 at 07:57 GMT +0100, a witness saw Chris Weaven [CW] type:
CW> Sorry, I keep moving the goalposts. After your name, it put's CW> [JA]. This is fine, but when I reply to someone who doesn't CW> support initials, it still comes up in the [ ], but doesn't appear CW> down the side of their quoted text. Surely if it's shows in one CW> place, it should be in the other and vice versa? Well, ok. So let's try to piece this one together without me just giving you the answer. From your message[1], your QuotesInit QT is: ====[QT QuotesINIT]==== %QUOTESTYLE='%- %IF:"%- %SETPATTREGEXP=""(?im-s)^X-Mailer\:.*(Bat!|Becky|Gnus|slrn).*$""%- %REGEXPBLINDMATCH=""%HEADERS""%- %SUBPATT=""1"""<>"":"=%QINCLUDE=""Initials""":"None"' ====[End]==== And you're trying to modify the behaviour of this part of your attribution line: %OFROMFNAME %OFROMLNAME [%QINCLUDE='Initials'] wrote Now, why don't you create a new QT called InitSelect or something to do the smart processing of '[JA]'. InitSelect is going to be based on the QuotesInit QT since it obviously does make a decision based on the recipients mailer. So let's analyze QuotesInit and hopefully that will make it obvious what you need to change. There are five crucial parts to the construction used in QuotesInit. 1. %QUOTESTYLE 2. %IF a) Test Condition b) True Action c) False Action The %QUOTESTYLE macro tells TB if you what type of prefix you want for the quotes. You can tell it to use a default value or you can force TB to use your string. Your options are listed fully in the help file. Suffice it to say that if you want to use your own string, you must use the construction: %QUOTESTYLE='=<your string>'. Of course you can use any allowed delimiter, I've used single quotes for convenience. Given the requirements of %QUOTESTYLE, we need to generate the string that we're going to pass to %QUOTESTYLE. We use the fact that TB supports nesting of macros. What this means is that the argument of a macro is essentially a mini-template. We can treat this mini-template just like any QT[2]. For the %QUOTESTYLE's template, we're only going to use the %IF macro. %IF has the construction: %IF:"string1"<>"string2":"true template":"false template" or more symbolically %IF : condition : true : false The condition in this case uses a trick. We generate string1 from a regular expression[3]. The regexp looks for one of the supported mailers in the X-Mailer header. If one of them is found, the regexp returns the name of that mailer. The condition we look for is that string1 is not an empty string. That is, we look for the case where something is returned by the regexp. Since the regexp only returns something if one of the accepted mailers is identified, this gives us our condition. The true template is executed if the original sender's mailer is one of these clients. This template is simply the %QINCLUDE to generate the initials[4]. The false template is execuated if the original sender's mailer is not identified as one of these clients. In the QuotesInit QT, this is just a fixed string corresponding to one of the default strings for the %QUOTESTYLE macro. You could make this into an empty string for your attribution line requirement. I hope that gives you some clues on how to modify the above to do what you need. If not, plaese ask. [1] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2] There are a few exceptions, but I won't go into them here. [3] I will not explain the regexp here at this time. It is a lengthy topic itself. [4] Hint: This is probably where you'd want to modify the string. -- Thanks for writing, Januk Aggarwal I was the next door kid's imaginary friend. ______________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbtech.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
