Re: procmail syntax problem

[Andras BALI <bali@debian.org>]

On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 09:45:54PM +0000, John Ericson wrote:

> I have a bit problem with 4 lines that lookes like this:

> :0:
> * ^Subject: 24 Hours of Slashdot Headlines For \
> | ^Subject: \[ Slashdot Message \] Daily Headlines
> in-slashdot_hl

You may want to write

:0:
* ^Subject: 24 Hours of Slashdot Headlines For\
|^Subject: \[ Slashdot Message \] Daily Headlines
in-slashdot_hl

instead, as the space before `\' and the space after `|'
are counted as part of the regexp.

To make things a bit more readable, I suggest using the following
form:

* ^Subject: 24 Hours of Slashdot Headlines For|\
  ^Subject: \[ Slashdot Message \] Daily Headlines

or even

* ^Subject: (24 Hours of Slashdot Headlines For|\
             \[ Slashdot Message \] Daily Headlines)

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