Re: score file - how to?

From: Billy Chan (bilchan@glink.net.hk)
Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 07:39:09 +0800

Sat, 24 May 1997 12:18:55 -0500 bobr@mcs.com (Robert P. Rush)
wrote in list.Yarn:

>> line within { }. I rechecked vsoup.inf. Does every score-rule need be
>> preceded with a score ? or killthreshold must be global?
>
>I'm sorry, I thought you were using Souper. That is the correct
>syntax for Souper. From What I could tell from the VSoup
>documentation, the killthreshold line must be placed outside of any
>set of braces { }.

My fault, I didn't say which I was using.

>If you want to apply a killthreshold to a specific group, the "-1
>Subject: $" seems to be the only way, although, you might want to
>change the '$' to a '^'. That way, it'll look for the beginning of the
>line instead of the end of the line. It may speed it up just a tad.

'^' is a regular expression, right? I'm a little confused here. VSoup
requires the keyword 'pattern' if we want to use regular expression or
VSoup will try to catch a literal string.

>Souper requires the killthreshold to be placed inside of the braces
>and will only apply to that group.

Thanks.