How about a new feature called "ReadRegexList" ? This is far to nasty.
Philip Hazel wrote:
>On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Marc Perkel wrote:
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>>Could you give me an example of how to do that with sg?
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>${sg{ outer sg
> ${sg{ inner sg ) operand
> ${readfile{/file}{|}} operand for inner sg ) for
> } end of operand ) outer
> {\\|\$} match | at end ) sg
> {} replace with nothing )
> } end of inner sg )
> } end operand for outer sg
> {\\|\\|} match ||
> {|} replace with |
> }
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>I have not put in continuations characters. Also, you'll need to be
>careful about the $ and \ in the regular expressions. I've put in the
>escapes that are needed in an expansion string.
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>Hmm. Now that I think about it, you could probably do it all in one sg
>call, which is probably more efficient:
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>${sg{
> ${readfile{/file}{|}}
> }
> {\\|(\\||\$)}
> {$1}
> }
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>The pattern now matches | followed either by another | or end of line.
>The replacement just loses the first |. I have not tested either of
>these. You should be able to test easily enough with "exim -be".
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>Regular expressions are your friend!
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>>Or - could you have some "smart" read file that would strip blank lines
>>and comment lines as well?
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>I fear that is getting too special-purpose.
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