3.32B3

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3.32B3

Postby obvious » Wed Jul 04, 2001 11:33 am

LAST EDITED ON 07-04-01 AT 10:34 AM (EST) Hi,

I understand there are changes in 3.32B3 with regard regular expression parsing. I'm trying to do a global exclude based on substring search within file/subject name.

Lets say I wanted to download any post with "fred" in the subject line. I would previously add "*fred*" to the 'accept matching subjects' list.

How would I do that now?

Thanks in advance

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RE: 3.32B3

Postby Quade » Wed Jul 04, 2001 11:52 am

Just add "fred" without the quotes. It'll match anywhere in the filename. You might or might not want this in the subject filter since it will match anywhere. It'll match a subject like:

"fred likes his bikini - bikini.jpg"

You could require a file extension appear in the subject though with something like

fred.*[.]jpg
fred.*[.]avi
fred.*[.]

It would still match bikini
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RE: 3.32B3

Postby obvious » Sun Jul 08, 2001 9:28 pm

Adding "fred" without the quotes works in the filename filter but seems not to in the subject filter.

Just feedback. I know you are working on it
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