Re: Getting the right dictionary for e-mail and newsgroup messages

[Cecil Westerhof]

Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

>>> (string-match "\\bnl\\b" "X.nl.X")
>
> CW> This also matches:
> CW>     (string-match "\\bnl\\b" "X-nl-X")
>
> CW> But I do not think that is a problem.
>
> I think you can modify the syntax table to accomodate this, making '-' a
> member of the word class, but you have to check the manual for the
> details.

I would need to put a lot more in the word class, because the original
problem was that before nl needs to be a '.' or the beginning of the
line and after a '.' or the end of the line. So in principal the regular
expression is to lenient, but the chance that it is a real problem is
very small. When that is the case, I need to use my original expression
again. But it is used for parsing newsgroup names, so I think the
expression is good enough.

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Cecil Westerhof
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