Re: score file - how to?
From: walt moffett (walt@scott.net)
Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 20:01:50 -0500
In article <CiDhz40UTSXW089yn@glink.net.hk>,
bilchan@glink.net.hk (Billy Chan) wrote:
>Wed, 21 May 1997 21:27:13 -0500 walt@scott.net (walt moffett)
>wrote in list.Yarn:
>
>>Here's an example from my score file. It drops everything but posts that
>>mention two games that consume more of my life than needed:
>>
>>comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic {
>>2 Subject: sp 2
>>2 Subject: sp 1
>>2 Subject: sp I
>>-1 pattern Subject: $
>>}
>
>Thanks Walt, I got the idea. What does $ mean here?
>
Match to the end of the line. ^ means start at the beginning of the line
and \ is an escape character so in the global part of my score I have a
line:
-5 Subject: \$
and a score of -5 is assigned to any post with a dollar sign in the
subject line but without the \ every post gets -5.