On Thursday 14 April 2005 20:30, wolfgang wrote: >In an older episode (Friday 15 April 2005 02:02), > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >wrote: >> \b means "word-ish character on one side, non-wordish character on >> the > >other" > >good explanation to help me understand my misconception, thanks. > >> | is not a word-ish character > >i was aware of that, but tried to "consider | to be wordish", > exactly (which was even unnecessary in case of mai\|). > >> A better way to match the "end of a word, considering | to be >> word-ish" > >might be > >> \bmai\|(?:\W|$) >> >> and to match beginning of a word >> (?:\W|^)\|etter\b
And I cannot get either example above past a spamassassin --lint Did my mailer (kmail) fubar it somehow? >thanks! > >In an older episode (Thursday 14 April 2005 02:31), Robert Menschel wrote: >> Use the command >> >> > ./spamassassin -D -t <testfile >outfile 2>msgfile >> >> and peruse the msgfile output ... you will at least have a full >> list of all the subtests that fired > >and thanks for that one, too. that subtests list was very useful > when trying to debug why arithmetic metarules didn't do what i > expected, and the subtests were the wrongly used \|\b\| ones. > >regards, > >wolfgang -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
