Re: How to read an rfc spec

2008-01-28 Thread 2apart
> This question is both irrelevant to the Perl language and very lazy. > RFC2822 is a specification for Internet text messages, and itself You guys just love to scold... guys? Are you female? :-) > 1.2.2. Syntactic notation > > This standard uses the Augmented Backus-Naur Form (ABNF) notat

Re: How to read an rfc spec

2008-01-28 Thread 2apart
On Jan 27, 7:21 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gunnar Hjalmarsson) wrote: > 2apart wrote: > > > Subject: How to read an rfc spec > > What has your question to do with Perl? > > -- > Gunnar Hjalmarsson > Email:http://www.gunnar.cc/cgi-bin/contact.pl What does yours? ;-

How to read an rfc spec

2008-01-27 Thread 2apart
Here's a little section from rfc 2822. I know what the nemonics stand for, but I'm not sure how to read the spec, * [] () / what do they mean. If you have a handle on this could you translate the CFWS spec. It seems to contain all the code except the quote " Thanks. FWS = ([*