Subject: Re: question on pattern matching

From: [email-masked] (Stephen R. van den Berg)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 1994 18:20:38 +0200

Sam Lok <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> Sam Lok <[email-masked]> wrote:
>> >I'm trying to eliminate mails that do not contain the word "error", that's
>> >easy enough with the following:

>> >	* !error
>> >	/dev/null

>> >but i also would like to trash mails IFF the word "error" is the only
>> >instance occuring in the sentence:

>> >	the standard error of ....

Well, then what about:

	:0
	* !error
	/dev/null

	:0
	* -1^1 error
	*  2^0 the standard error of
	/dev/null

-- 
Sincerely,                                  [email-masked]
           Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless).

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