Re: [Pan-users] Regexp debugging

[Duncan]

On Sat 15 Feb 2003 04:45, Jean-Marc posted as excerpted below:
> I'm trying to use regexps to filter out some articles
> for example the following regexp :
> [\[\(\{][ \t]*[Mm][ \t]*[\]\}\)]
> to get rid off articles with a subject containing (m) or [M] for
> example.
>
> However this doesn't seem to work. Is there an obvious flaw I don't see
> in my regexp or isn't it in the good format ?

You didn't mention which version of PAN.  A recent one (0.13.3.90, IIRC, or 
maybe .91) broke some of the filtering, but it's fixed in the latest beta 
(.93).  Eliminating that as a possibility is useful for determining if it's 
worth tracing further, or not.

BTW, Charles mentioned he's working on adding scoring now, altho I think he's 
planning that after 0.13.4 stable, so the entire filtering code is likely to 
change shortly.  Tracking down a current issue might not be worth a huge 
amount of effort, but OTOH, a small fix now might keep the same possible 
issue out of the new code, so it's worth reporting.

-- 
Duncan
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