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Postby deebee » Sun Feb 12, 2012 8:52 pm

I need to create a filter based on the From: field
teevee@4u.tv (teevee) is valid while teevee@4u.tv ((teevee)) is invalid
Can't figure out how to filter out the second one without it filtering out the first one.

Thanks in advance
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Re: Filter ((

Postby Quade » Sun Feb 12, 2012 10:19 pm

[(]{2}teevee[)]{2}

Would probably do it. It means "two parens to start, "teevee" two parens to close"

You have to escape the parens because they have a special meaning in the filter language (regular expressions).

Right click "Delete all Posts by Poster" should kill them, too but, till you download new headers.
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Re: Filter ((

Postby deebee » Mon Feb 13, 2012 12:06 am

Perfect. Thanks
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Re: Filter ((

Postby nikkil » Tue Nov 27, 2012 12:00 pm

Hi. Does this process also apply with the current version? I think I'm missing something here.
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