Ok. I've figured out the answer but I'm not sure I that I understand
fully.
The correct pattern is:
"\\\\s{10,}\\\\[\\\\w{4,8}\\\\]"
But what I don't understand is why when I wanted to match:
]_by
it was sufficient to do "\]_by"
Tabor
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 03:44:30PM -0400,
Tabor J. Wells <twells@???> is thought to have said:
> I'm having trouble with a regular expression match in my system filter
> and I'm just not seeing what I'm doing wrong. I've been over the PCRE
> doc several times and I think what I'm doing is correct but it still
> doesn't match.
>
> To match:
>
> Subject: Something [abcde]
>
> I'm using:
>
> $h_subject matches "\\\\s{10,}\[\\\\w{4,8}\]"
>
> an exim -d9 -bF shows:
>
> Match expanded arguments:
> Subject = Something [abcde]
> Pattern = \s{10,}[\w{4,8}]
> Sub-condition is false: $h_subject matches \\s{10,}[\\w{4,8}]
>
> What am I missing here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tabor
>
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