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Subject: [exim-dev] [Bug 458] New: Expansion condition: forall and/or forany
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http://www.exim.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=458

           Summary: Expansion condition: forall and/or forany
           Product: Exim
           Version: N/A
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: work:small
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: medium
         Component: String expansion
        AssignedTo: ph10@???
        ReportedBy: holmgren@???
         QAContact: exim-dev@???



Purpose: To do something useful with $recipients without resorting to filters
or perl, and to process the results of DKIM signature verification in the
future.

Suggested syntax:

forany {<string1>}{<string2>}

or, perhaps more analogous to and and or,

forany {<string1>}{<cond1>}

string1 is expanded and treated as a list. Each item in the list is, in turn,
put in a variable (either $value or a new one called e.g. $item). Then string2
is expanded or cond1 evaluated. If the result for any item true, forany returns
true and no more evaluations are performed. If the result is false for all
items, forany returns false. The opposite holds for forall (forall {list}{cond}
is the same as !forany {list}{!cond}).

To be useful, forall/forany must be able to handle different kinds of lists
(different separators and separators within quoted strings not to be treated as
separators). But that is better accomplished by improving the generic
list-handling functions.

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