Hello Brian,
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000 at 03:16:56 GMT -0500 (which was 12:16 AM
where I live) witnesses say Brian Clark typed:
> OK, now I'm confused. I tend to get that way with plenty of things, as
> some of you *cough* Marck, Allie *cough* *cough* know.
<g> No problem.
> ... from the "Strip PGP Signatures" example
> in the Macros section of the FAQ:
> [one line]
> %quotes="%SETPATTREGEXP=""(?is)(^-----BEGIN PGP
>SIGNED.*?\n(Hash:.*?\n)?\s*)?(.*?)(^(-*?\s*?--
> \s*\n|_{40,}\s*\n|-----BEGIN PGP
>SIGNATURE)|\z)""%REGEXPBLINDMATCH=""%text""%SUBPATT=""3"""
> [one line]
> Could you tell me why there needs to be two sets of double quotes
> around the regular expression:
> %SETPATTREGEXP=""(?is)(^-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED.*?\n(Hash:.*?\n)?\s*)?(.*?)(^(-*?\s*?--
> \s*\n|_{40,}\s*\n|-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE)|\z)""
> and:
> %REGEXPBLINDMATCH=""%text""
> and this:
> %SUBPATT=""3""
This is because these three macros are arguments to the %Quotes macro,
and the delimiters for the %QUOTES macro is single double quotes.
Therefore a different delimiter needs to be used, and so double double
quotes were used.
--
Thanks for writing,
Januk Aggarwal
Using The Bat! 1.48f
under Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A
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