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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Posix string to match [[0-999]] Post 86566 by Mair55 on Saturday 15th of October 2005 11:54:54 AM
Old 10-15-2005
Thanks very much

Thanks very much for encouraging my understanding - can you tell me if I have to enclose things in quotes to keep them as a string? This may seem very basic to you but I really hardly know anything!

if I use

"bad word" will that let me identify anything with "bad word" in it but if I leave it as bad word without the quotes, it would match anything with b or a or d or space or w or o or r. I am using regular expressions in a spam filter and i guess this is how the regular expression works but I don't really know. The spam filter manual says you can use regular expressions but doesn't give any guidance on syntax. Can you also recommend a good reference for regular expressions for beginners.

Thanks again for all your help,

Mair
 

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