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Regex to filter all headers except those that contain a word
Posted:
Thu May 26, 2005 7:36 pmby RonMarz
How would I write an expression to filter out all headers except those containing the term "public domain?"
I assume this requires some use of both the Accept and Reject filters, but I haven't correctly doped out the syntax.
Thanks.
Posted:
Thu May 26, 2005 9:25 pmby Quade
You add an accept filter only.
"public.*domain" is how I'd do it. No quotes.
Posted:
Thu May 26, 2005 9:48 pmby RonMarz
And that causes all other headers to be rejected? I'll give it a try. (Boy, did I have the wrong idea.)
Posted:
Thu May 26, 2005 10:08 pmby itimpi
In this case I would expect a Reject filter, not an accept filter.
Posted:
Thu May 26, 2005 10:34 pmby Quade
Think of it this way.
Accept means "Show ONLY matching"
Whereas
Reject means "Reject ANY Matching".
If you ONLY want to see "Public Domain" then only Accept "Public.*Domain". Should only show you matches.
Posted:
Thu May 26, 2005 10:53 pmby RonMarz
All clear now. (I thought Accept meant "OVERRIDE Reject with matching.") Thanks.
Posted:
Sat Jul 22, 2006 6:32 pmby bobkoure
Just a nit, but wouldn't you actually want "public\s*domain"?
Not that you are going to get a lot of posts with "public blah blah blah domain blah blah" in 'em...
I'm assuming a title with "publicdomain" should be matched (as did you with the .*).