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List:       procmail
Subject:    Re: Escaping exclamation, greater than, less than inside of a recipe
From:       Birl <sbirl () concept ! ocis ! temple ! edu>
Date:       2003-10-27 20:18:19
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As it was written on Oct 27, thus Gerald V. Livingston II typed:

Gerald:  On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 14:12:42 -0500 (EST) Birl <sbirl@concept.ocis.temple.edu> wrote:
Gerald:
Gerald:  > When I searched "escape exclamation", I read David Tamkin's answer here:
Gerald:  > http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2003-01/msg00466.html
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  > So when I entered this recipe:
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  >      # Catch false HTML comments
Gerald:  >      :0 B:
Gerald:  >      * <!....>
Gerald:  >      .SPAM/false_HTML_comments
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  > My logs spewed the following:
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  > procmail: Skipped "!....>"
Gerald:  > procmail: No match on "<!....>"
Gerald:  >
Gerald:  > Im curious as to why.
Gerald:
Gerald:  Re-read David's answer that you linked to above. Comparing your recipe to
Gerald:  his answer makes it (REALLY) obvious why it isn't working.


Thus Homer said, "D'OH!".   Damn my selective reading.

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