On Fri, 17 Dec 1999 10:16:14 +0800, Thomas Fernandez wrote:
> on Thursday, December 16, 1999, 7:44:46 PM GMT+0800, Peter Steiner wrote:
PS>> The macros for stripping down all Re:'s and Aw:'s look like:
PS>> %SETPATTREGEXP="(?i)((Re|Aw)\:\s*)*(.*)"
PS>> %REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%OSUBJ"
PS>> Re: %SUBPATT="3"
PS>> The normal way to replace the subject of a message is
PS>> %SUBJECT=""%SUBJECT="Re: (This was the original subject)"
> Not quite. In Z notation, what you want is:
What's Z notation?
> Subject'= "Re" + Subject\Replyparam
Almost Agreed, it should be "Re: " + Subject\Replyparam
> where Replyparam is "Re", "Aw" or "AW". Note that the original subject
> has to be stripped off the original reply parameter. I trust that your
> RegExp above has this "or" function and gives you the correct result.
> However, Alex said before that RegExp's cannot replace, only find. I
> don't know anything about this.
The stripping works well. A short explanation what the RegExp does,
working from the inside out:
%SETPATTREGEXP="(?i)((Re|Aw)\:\s*)*(.*)"
1. "(?i)" RegExp option: work case insensitive (so Aw and AW are
matched)
2. "(Re|Aw)" matches Re or Aw.
3. "(Re|Aw)\:\s*" matches Re: or Aw: followed by any number of
whitespace (spaces, tabs)
This can be easily expanded, eg "(Re|R|Ref|Aw|Antwort)\:\s*" for
more languages
4. "((Re|Aw)\:\s*)*" matches any number of repetitions of (3.). If
we have "AW: Re: Aw: Re: Example Subject" it matches
"AW: Re: Aw: Re: "
5. "(.*)" matches the rest. In the example above this would be
"Example Subject"
%REGEXPBLINDMATCH="%OSUBJ"
Re: %SUBPATT="3"
As we are not interested in all matches, but only in the one from
Step 5, we need to tell which part. The 'BLINDMATCH' macro does all
the matching without putting any text out. The %SUBPATT="3" is the
match from inside the third pair of parentheses (not counting the
option setting "(?i)"). This is step 5 from above. Then we have to
add a Re: in front, yielding my
Re: %SUBPATT="3"
PS>> %SUBJECT=""%SUBJECT="%QINCLUDE="strip-re-intl""
> I think you have one set of quotation marks too many.
Yes. That is exactly my problem.
> Does this work?:
> %Subject=""%Subject=%QInclude="strip-re-intl"
No, it yields a subject "QInclude=" ... :-(
Regards
Peter
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