RE: [Exim] Continuation lines

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Author: John Horne
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To: exim-users
Subject: RE: [Exim] Continuation lines
On 01-Mar-00 at 11:48:20 Philip Hazel wrote:
> The last of these leads to messy things like
>   file = "/var/mail/\ 
>     ${if match {$local_part}\
>     {^\\\\d{8}@example\\\\.com\\$}{special/}}\                         
>     $local_part"       

>
> This change would allow the above example to be written as
>
>   file = /var/mail/\ 
>     ${if match {$local_part}\
>     {^\\d{8}@example\\.com\$}{special/}}\                         
>     $local_part

>

You have my vote for the change. Backslashes in quotes (such as \\\\) are
still the bane of my life :-)

John.

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