Regular Expressions in Eudora Filters

#1 08-29-2008, 11:59 AM

Regular Expressions in Eudora Filters...

Does a tutorial exist that is more detailed than that contained in the
Help (v7.1.0.9,paid)?

I tried some expressions to move spam directly to Trash, but didn't
quite get the results I expected... Eudora sent some spam there, but
it didn't, as far as I can see, match what I wrote :-(

...Jim Thompson
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#2 08-29-2008, 02:04 PM

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:59:11 -0700, Jim Thompson
<To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:

>
>Regular Expressions in Eudora Filters...
>
>Does a tutorial exist that is more detailed than that contained in the
>Help (v7.1.0.9,paid)?
>
>I tried some expressions to move spam directly to Trash, but didn't
>quite get the results I expected... Eudora sent some spam there, but
>it didn't, as far as I can see, match what I wrote :-(

I try to read what they have in Help, and frankly, it's difficult to
tell the difference between parentheses, braces, and brackets. Maybe
it's just me.

#3 08-29-2008, 02:22 PM

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04:22 -0400, Pete Granzeau <pgranzeau@cox.net>
wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:59:11 -0700, Jim Thompson
><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Regular Expressions in Eudora Filters...
>>
>>Does a tutorial exist that is more detailed than that contained in the
>>Help (v7.1.0.9,paid)?
>>
>>I tried some expressions to move spam directly to Trash, but didn't
>>quite get the results I expected... Eudora sent some spam there, but
>>it didn't, as far as I can see, match what I wrote :-(
>
>I try to read what they have in Help, and frankly, it's difficult to
>tell the difference between parentheses, braces, and brackets. Maybe
>it's just me.

Yep. Doesn't seem to follow any "standard" for regular expressions
:-(

...Jim Thompson
--
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#4 08-29-2008, 03:19 PM

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:22:37 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04:22 -0400, Pete Granzeau <pgranzeau@cox.net>
>wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:59:11 -0700, Jim Thompson
>><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Regular Expressions in Eudora Filters...
>>>
>>>Does a tutorial exist that is more detailed than that contained in the
>>>Help (v7.1.0.9,paid)?

Here are two you might find helpful (only one is specific
to Eudora):

http://www.cecilw.com/eudora/regexp.htm
http://analyser.oli.tudelft.nl/regex/index.html.en

>>>I tried some expressions to move spam directly to Trash, but didn't
>>>quite get the results I expected... Eudora sent some spam there, but
>>>it didn't, as far as I can see, match what I wrote :-(
>>
>>I try to read what they have in Help, and frankly, it's difficult to
>>tell the difference between parentheses, braces, and brackets. Maybe
>>it's just me.
>
>Yep. Doesn't seem to follow any "standard" for regular expressions
>:-(

Eudora uses the POSIX implementation of regex.

Erik

#5 08-29-2008, 04:00 PM

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:19:15 GMT, Erik <norseman45@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:22:37 -0700, Jim Thompson wrote:
>
>>On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04:22 -0400, Pete Granzeau <pgranzeau@cox.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:59:11 -0700, Jim Thompson
>>><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Regular Expressions in Eudora Filters...
>>>>
>>>>Does a tutorial exist that is more detailed than that contained in the
>>>>Help (v7.1.0.9,paid)?
>
>Here are two you might find helpful (only one is specific
>to Eudora):
>
>http://www.cecilw.com/eudora/regexp.htm
>http://analyser.oli.tudelft.nl/regex/index.html.en
>
>>>>I tried some expressions to move spam directly to Trash, but didn't
>>>>quite get the results I expected... Eudora sent some spam there, but
>>>>it didn't, as far as I can see, match what I wrote :-(
>>>
>>>I try to read what they have in Help, and frankly, it's difficult to
>>>tell the difference between parentheses, braces, and brackets. Maybe
>>>it's just me.
>>
>>Yep. Doesn't seem to follow any "standard" for regular expressions
>>:-(
>
>Eudora uses the POSIX implementation of regex.
>
>Erik

Aha! I have both RegexBuddy and UltraEdit, so I can test Eudora
filter expressions to the POSIX rendering. Thanks for the pointer!

...Jim Thompson
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#6 08-29-2008, 05:02 PM

On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:04:22 -0400, Pete Granzeau <pgranzeau@cox.net>
wrote:

>On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:59:11 -0700, Jim Thompson
><To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@My-Web-Site.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>Regular Expressions in Eudora Filters...
>>
>>Does a tutorial exist that is more detailed than that contained in the
>>Help (v7.1.0.9,paid)?
>>
>>I tried some expressions to move spam directly to Trash, but didn't
>>quite get the results I expected... Eudora sent some spam there, but
>>it didn't, as far as I can see, match what I wrote :-(
>
>I try to read what they have in Help, and frankly, it's difficult to
>tell the difference between parentheses, braces, and brackets. Maybe
>it's just me.

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