Ray Jette wrote:
> Good morning,
> I am trying to write a negative scoring rule that files on the
> following: PO
> PO#
> PO #
> 
> Following is the rule I am using:
> 
> header PO_AND_ORDERS        Subject =~ /\bPO*?#?/i
> score PO_AND_ORDERS        -0.50
> describe PO_AND_ORDERS    A negative scoring rule that searches the
> subject for PO #'s.
> 
> Thanks for any help you can provide.

Try this one:

    Subject =~ /\bPO\b ?#?/i

The "\b" after the "PO" will prevent it from matching things like
"positive", "pollen", or anything else that happens to start with "po".
Keep in mind that the "i" at the end makes it case-insensitive, so this
will match "PO", "po", "pO", etc.

-- 
Bowie

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