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Re: check if message is in a particular sequence?
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: check if message is in a particular sequence? |
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Thu, 29 Apr 2021 12:49:40 -0400 |
>What's the fastest/easiest way to check if a particular message
>is a member of a particular sequence?
>
>I thought I'd be able to compare the message number against the output
>of "mark -list", but since sequences can be abbreviated with range
>notation, that gets complicated quickly. For example, message 6 is in
>the sequence todo, but it's hard to tell from this:
You can get the expanded list of messages in a sequence by doing this:
scan -format '%(msg)' sequence-name
I think from there, it's easy. I do not know of a better way, but it
wouldn't surprise me if someone came up with something better.
--Ken
Re: check if message is in a particular sequence?, Ralph Corderoy, 2021/04/30