Theo Van Dinter wrote:
> On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:46:56AM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
>> I've been looking at what a rot13'ed email-address looks like, and it
>> doesn't come close to matching the pattern above.
>
> rot13 is a common/well-defined version of a single substitution
> cipher. This rule tries to match those, not the rot13 a-m <-> n-z
> mapping specifically.
Then why is the pattern very specific wrt '^' and '(' ?
>> This would patch the pattern above: "ghtyetrt^rt456yu78ui(tyy "
>
> Right, and that looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED] after going through
> a substitution.
Not really. A rot13 of an email-address should not substitute '@'
and '.'.
> Check out the list archives, this came up a while ago.
OK, will do.
/Per Jessen, Zürich
