Re: VSoup and Killfile

Hardy Griech (rgriech@ibm.net)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:05:44 +0200

On Fri, 20 Sep 1996 04:07:21 -0500, pcrown@airmail.net (Phil Crown) wrote:
:
> If the kill file exists in %home% it will be used, it does not matter
> whether you use the command line switch or not.
>
> I suppose the command line would only be useful for specifying a
> different kill file.
:

That's correct

> Perhaps the kill file uses those regular expressions? I'm not
> completely sure how regular expression work. For example, I have
>
> all {
> Subject $50,000
> }

Yes, it uses regular expressions! I am wondering why the above
expression is killing any '$50,000' article, because the '$' means
'matching end of line'...

> I've noticed that subjects with "$50,000" do not always get killed, so
> maybe the $ or the , is part of a regular expression?
:

Give \$50,000 a try. The '\' escapes the special meanings of the
regular expression characters!

:
> I believe the . is also one of them....
:

Yes, '.' is also one. It matches any character!

In another yarn-list thread I posted a description of regular
expressions some days ago (yesterday?). You should find it, if you
are looking for 'regular' in your newsbase (just found it: it is in
the 'Souper95 scoring' thread - threading is really great)

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