On 11/25/2011 10:13 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > Subject: [Fwd: Re: How long a rule can be?]
My main answers to the original thread were posted there (today). I guess I'm too accustomed to orderly threads; coupling my threaded view in thunderbird with the big pile of mail unread since before the holiday and I missed this thread when responding to the original. If you want to fork the thread into a tangent, please change the subject so other responses to it don't follow you. Also, don't respond to the parts of the thread you are not forking; those belong in another message in the original thread. </rant> > If you're finding your rule is starting to get difficult to maintain, > take a look at my rule assembly tool, which is designed to allow such > rules to be defined in an easily edited file for each rule that are > used to create a single .cf file. See: > http://www.libelle-systems.com/free/portmanteau/portmanteau.tgz > > I was thinking of using a server plus plugin to do this but was > convinced that this 'portmanteau rule' approach was better: it > certainly works well for me. You might want to consider Regexp::Assemble for your tool, though that would require using perl. This would cause your man page's example rule to result in something like this: body __AU0 /(?i-xsm:\balt[123]\b)/ rather than your script's *much* slower: body __AU0 /\b(alt1|alt2|alt3)\b/i
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