Re: [exim] Remove header lines matching a specific pattern?

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Author: Heiko Schlittermann
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Remove header lines matching a specific pattern?
Phil Pennock <exim-users@???> (Di 14 Jul 2009 04:55:19 CEST):
> On 2009-07-14 at 00:35 +0200, Heiko Schlittermann wrote:
> > I'm still at my version - instead of cutting away the tail, I'm
> > selecting the head of the logical header line:
> >
> > ${lc:${sg {$message_headers_raw}{\N(?m)(^\S+(?=\s*):)?.*?\n\N}{\$1}}}
>
> The \S+(?=\s*): part doesn't do what I think you think it does.
>
> (?=foo) is a zero-width positive lookahead assertion. It matches if and
> only if followed by foo, but does *not* advance the "current position"
> past foo.
>
> So X(?=\s*): will match if, after matching X, it can match zero or more
> spaces and then, immediately after X, match a colon. In the degenerate
> case of zero spaces, this works. But it won't match when there is
> space.
>
> ${lc:${sg {$message_headers_raw}{\N(?m)(?:(^\S+)\s*(:))?.*?\n\N}{\$1\$2}}}
>
> I suggest taking a mail header for your -bem test file and inserting
> some whitespace for testing purposes.


ohohoho, I just wanted to show you that it does what I thing it should
do, using my mail file (according to your suggestion yesterday) - and -
voila - it doesn't do what I think it should do. I'm missing the
"To : fred" header :-( and I don't know why I didn't see it yesterday.

So, exploring regex goes on ;)

    Best regards from Dresden/Germany
    Heiko Schlittermann
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