On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:48:06AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 02:45:35PM +0000, Pollywog wrote: > > I want to remove all messages that contain three or more "!" in the subject > > but I can't think of a way to do it while allowing two "!"s. Anyone have a > > regex for this? > > .*!.*!.*!.* doesn't work?
well .* means anything, including !, so this involves backtracking, perhaps the following is more efficient: [^!]*\![^!]*\![^!]*\!.* -- groetjes, carel
