> What's the difference? Your meta rule is fundamentally identical to
Loren's
> rule, is it not?!
Yes. The difference is the meta doesn't have an indeterminate length .*
match in the middle.
However, since in this case backtracking shouldn't be possible, the meta
should actually be a little slower than the single regex.
Loren
>
> Cheers,
> Jeremy
>
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Loren Wilton wrote:
> > header LW_NONEWS Subject =~ /^Re:\s.*\bnews$/i
> ...
> > The .* should be safe in that regex since a subject isn't very long
> > and the things on either side are anchored.
>
> If you're paranoid you could do a couple of meta rules:
>
> header _SUBJECT_STARTSWITH_RE Subject =~ /^Re:\s/i
> header _SUBJECT_ENDSWITH_NEWS Subject =~ /\bnews$/i
> meta SUBJECT_IS_RE_NEWS (_SUBJECT_STARTSWITH_RE && _SUBJECT_ENDSWITH_NEWS)
>
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> Hispanic Business Inc./HireDiversity.com Software Engineer
>
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