Re: [exim] Doc Query : listextract

On 17/09/15 04:07, Always Learning wrote:
> exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-string_expansions.html
>
>
>> ${listextract{-3}{<, x,42,99,& Mailer,,/bin/bash}{result: $value}}
>>
>> yields “result: 99”.
>
> If the right-most data in a punctuated field is labelled -1, then
> shouldn't the -3 yield '& Mailer' ?

I get 42, not 99. You found a docs bug.

But your "-1"th field runs from the "&" onwards,
because of the rules on doubled list separators.

You'll be better off with extract, for this job.
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Cheers,
Jeremy