On 19 Feb 2002, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.02.19.1453 +0100]:
> > :0:
> > * ^Subject:.*[\0-9\][\0-9\][\0-9\][\0-9\][\0-9\]
> > junkfile
> >
> > From my reading of the regexp docs I thught this should catch all long
> > number sequences enclosed in \, but I don't think it's right.
>
> \123 is not a number sequence per se, it's an octal number, and it
> occupies only 1-2 bytes, not four as its ascii representation.
>
> regardless, the above would be:
>
> * ^Subject:.*(\[0-9]{3})+
>
> which would match a sequence of one or more \123.
>
I see - thank you.
Anthony
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