Re: VSoup and Killfile

Phil Crown (pcrown@airmail.net)
Fri, 20 Sep 1996 12:19:54 -0500

>> 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'...

Thanks! Actually, I don't think $50,000 has ever been killed the way I
have it now. :-)

>> 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)
>
>--
>Hardy Griech, Kurt-Schumacher-Str. 25/1, D-72762 Reutlingen

I will look for the *95* thread. I don't have it on disk,
but I saw an excellent mailing list archives area on the Yarn/Soup Home
page last time I was there.

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