12-15-2011
Help with regular expression
Hi All,
Need some help with a regular expression that I cant seem to work on. Say there is the following text -
Input
We all (need some) help some day (ps: when it rains) and I need to save some hay now.
During the rainy season (ps: when it might rain heavily) Seattle gets drenched but not (all of pacific) northwest.
one of the best things that could (ps: happen) with any one is winning a lottery(1 atlas)
Output
We all (need some) help some day and I need to save some hay now.
During the rainy season Seattle gets drenched but not (all of pacific) northwest.
one of the best things that could with any one is winning a lottery(1 atlas)
I only want to eliminate anything in parenthesis as long as it starts with ps:
here is what i did
Opera $cat text | sed 's/(ps:*.*)//g'
We all (need some) help some day and I need to save some hay now.
During the rainy season northwest.
one of the best things that could
...as you can see that is not working when there is any parenthesis after where it finds the ps:.
Please help.
Thanks
Manohar.
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mail::spamassassin::plugin::replacetags
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ReplaceTags(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ReplaceTags(3)
NAME
Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ReplaceTags - tags for SpamAssassin rules
The plugin allows rules to contain regular expression tags to be used in regular expression rules. The tags make it much easier to
maintain complicated rules.
Warning: This plugin relies on data structures specific to this version of SpamAssasin; it is not guaranteed to work with other versions of
SpamAssassin.
SYNOPSIS
loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ReplaceTags
replace_start <
replace_end >
replace_tag A [a@]
replace_tag G [gk]
replace_tag I [il|!1y?xccxcdxcexcfxecxedxeexef]
replace_tag R [r3]
replace_tag V (?:[vu]|\/)
replace_tag SP [s~_-]
body VIAGRA_OBFU /(?!viagra)<V>+<SP>*<I>+<SP>*<A>+<SP>*<G>+<SP>*<R>+<SP>*<A>+/i
describe VIAGRA_OBFU Attempt to obfuscate "viagra"
replace_rules VIAGRA_OBFU
RULE DEFINITIONS AND PRIVILEGED SETTINGS
replace_tag tagname expression
Assign a valid regular expression to tagname.
Note: It is not recommended to put quantifiers inside the tag, it's better to put them inside the rule itself for greater flexibility.
replace_pre tagname expression
Assign a valid regular expression to tagname. The expression will be placed before each tag that is replaced.
replace_inter tagname expression
Assign a valid regular expression to tagname. The expression will be placed between each two immediately adjacent tags that are
replaced.
replace_post tagname expression
Assign a valid regular expression to tagname. The expression will be placed after each tag that is replaced.
replace_rules list_of_tests
Specify a list of symbolic test names (separated by whitespace) of tests which should be modified using replacement tags. Only simple
regular expression body, header, uri, full, rawbody tests are supported.
replace_start string
replace_end string
String(s) which indicate the start and end of a tag inside a rule. Only tags enclosed by the start and end strings are found and
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