Re: Fwd: broken "^From " header

[Kevin O' Riordan <kor@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here's a little script based on your regex:
[snip]
> ... (/ [MTWFS][ouehra][neduit] [JFMAMSOND][aepuc][nbrynlgptvc] ...

Personally, I'd have the match the desired strings explicitly, like so:

    / (Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun) 
(Jan|Feb|Mar|Apr|May|Jun|Jul|Aug|Sep|Oct|Nov|Dec)/

for no other reason than clarity; it's immediately obvious what's
intended to be matched by the above, whereas the original takes a little
working out.

Perl also offers a modifier, 'x', which allows you to use whitespace in
your regex to improve readability - this is further detailed in the
perlre and perlop manpages.

hth,
-kev


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