On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 06:37:15PM +0200, Bart-Jan Vrielink wrote: > On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 16:42, Gene Grimm wrote: > > I have simple question that I can't find documented. I need to add basic > > spam/virus filters to body_checks using regular expressions where the > > line begins with a tab character. Using "\t" or "\s" doesn't seem to > > work. Can anyone suggest the best way to handle this? > > Are you using regexp or pcre maps ?? > If you are using pcre style regular expressions then \t should work.
correct. \s and \t (and \d, \w, \b, and many others) are pcre (perl-compatible regular expressions) which are an extension of standard regexps. > If the map is a regexp style map, then you just use a tab instead of > \t. yep, and use "[[:space:]]" instead of "\s" - that matches spaces & tabs, just like \s does. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
