* Doug Monroe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-09-16 14:47]: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >OK thanks for the clarification. I just want to stop the word "cum" in any > >case (upper, lower or mixed) from been in the subject. But I don't want to > >block words with "cum" in them like "document". So here's what I did. > (?i)(.* cum .*|cum|cum .*|.* cum) [sorry Doug for replying to you first. Forgot my brain somewhere.] How about: (?i).*\bcum\b.* If you read "perldoc perlre": Perl defines the following zero-width assertions: \b Match a word boundary \B Match a non-(word boundary) A word boundary ("\b") is a spot between two characters that has a "\w" on one side of it and a "\W" on the other side of it (in either order), counting the imaginary char acters off the beginning and end of the string as matching a "\W". HTH, alex -- Alex Pleiner zeitform Internet Dienste Fraunhoferstrasse 5 64283 Darmstadt, Germany http://www.zeitform.de Tel.: +49 (0)6151 155-635 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: +49 (0)6151 155-634 GnuPG/PGP Key-ID: 0x613C21EA ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Qmail-scanner-general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qmail-scanner-general