T o n g wrote: > I seems not able to get the word end boundary matching for procmail > works. Here is my test rc file: > > :0 HB > * 1^0 \<test\> > * 1^0 test > /dev/null > > and there is a ' test ' in my test email. > > However, from the dry run log, I can see that '\<test\>' did not match > yet 'test' did.
I think it is a bug in the \< expansion. Try this with one extra backslash in front of the left < only. Not the right > one. Only the left one. :0 HB * 1^0 \\<test\> * 1^0 test /dev/null > 2. About word end boundary matching, I found the following from the web: That documentation is in the procmailrc man page. > \< > A shorthand for the character class [^a-zA-Z0-9_] except it can also > match newlines. > This is an incompatible imitation of the "word end boundary" operator > found in some extended regular expression implementations. Note that \< > and \> are actually identical. I think that is outdated because from testing the above the documentation in the man page doesn't seem to match the behavior. I think the ERE engine may have been swapped out for a different one after the documentation was written. Bob
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