Hallo Stuart,

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:14:23 +0100GMT (9-9-2004, 16:14 +0200, where I
live), you wrote:

SM> [*]ist[-][d] in the subject line or main text (where []
SM> denotes optional and this is a complete word so I do not get
SM> matches on words beginning with "ist")

SM> I assume this should be something along these lines:

SM> (?i)^*?ist-?d?$

A dash? I thought it was *ist d
I'd go for ^\*?ist\s?d$
\s standing for a space

Why do you give an option for the 'd', without that it's an analog
slr IIRC.

SM> I am guessing that * and - have special meanings so I can not do it this way.

You can escape special characters by using a backslash.

RO>> Note: Most people tend to skip on characters that are neither letter
RO>> nor number (hardly anybody on this list talks about 'The Bat!') and
SM> Sadly, a very high proportion of the members include the *.

That's not so bad, after all you can search for it.

-- 
Groetjes, Roelof

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