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Re: index_format filtering?



* Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> [01-18-04 02:37]:
> Digging through an old thread...
> 
> On 06:55 09 Mar 2003, Patrick Shanahan <pat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> | * Cameron Simpson <cs@xxxxxxxxxx> [03-08-03 23:58]:
> | > I do this in my procmailrc with this rule:
> | >   # tidy up Re: and [tag] in Subject:
> | >   :0 Whf
> | >   * ^subject:.*(\[|re)
> | >   | cleansubj
> | > where cleansubj is this script:
> | >   http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/scripts/cleansubj
> | 
> | Tried your script and like the idea, but the following fails and I have
> | *no* knowledge of sed *^(
> |    Re: [[some-text] Original Subject]
> | 
> | result:   Original Subject]
> 
> Well, that's because this bit:
> 
>       :subject
>       s/^\[[^         ]*\][   ]*//
> 
> strips "[non-whitespace]spaces" so it got the "[[some-text]".
> 
> Before I could fix this, what did you _want_ it to end up with?

The trailing ']' removed.  thanks
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