On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 11:23 +0930, Cory Hawkless wrote:
> Ahh, I have played with regexbuddy but when copy and pasting the SA rules in
> it does strange things that are inconsistent with the result i get from SA,
> These recent shopxx rules have been good examples but I cant get regexbuddy
> to reproduce the expected results?
>
> Has anyone used regexbuddy before?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rich...@buzzhost.co.uk [mailto:rich...@buzzhost.co.uk]
> Sent: Saturday, 27 June 2009 5:12 PM
> Cc: users@spamassassin.apache.org
> Subject: Re: SA RegEx Rules
>
> On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 16:56 +0930, Cory Hawkless wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > Been doing some reading on RegEx and even coming from a programming
> > background it is a bit intimidating, my problem is I haven???t been able
> > to find a good source of information on exactly what\how SpamAssassin
> > matches the RegEx rules when scanning and what variant of RegEx is
> > being used?(I.E what syntax is and is not allowed?)
> >
> >
> >
> > I???d like to be able to make my own simple rules but it???s proving quite
> > difficult, Maybe a tool that I can use the build Regular Expressions
> > would help?
> >
> >
> >
> > I???m sure there are PELNTY of other out ther that are rather bamboozled
> > by this also and would benefit greatly from any assistance.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > Cory
> >
> >
> http://www.regexbuddy.com/
>
>
I've used it, but I don't rate it much if I'm honest. It's great for
beginners to get an 'idea' hence posting the link. I do most of my
testing either with VIM (VI is a bit too old school for me) or gedit
with the regex search and replace plugin.
