email edit

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:54:44PM -0500, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Fri, 9 Nov 2007 23:06:30 -0500):
> >I remember we dabbled at this last year, sometime, but I don't recall
> >if we came up with a working edit.
> >
> >I have
> >
> >lhsc   <A | N | "_" | "-" | "+" | "%"
> >lhs    <{lhsc}
> >rhsc   <lhsc
> >rhs    <{rhsc} "." {*}
> >email  <lhs "@" rhs
> >
> >But rhs, which should not match "baylink.", unless I misunderstand the
> >edit language rather badly after 20 years... does.
> >
> >{matches} are greedy, I think, and that's fine, but rhsc doesn't
> >*match* a dot.  What am I missing, folks?
> 
> You are correct that rhsc doesn't match the dot, which is fine, because
> rhs says that your string from rhsc must be followed by a dot.
> 
> That is:
> 
>     {rhsc} "." {*}
> 
>       {rhsc}  accepts "baylink"
>       "."     accepts "."
>       {*}     accepts the trailing spaces
> 
>     End-of-edit and end-of-field reached.  Edit passes.

* matches nothing?  That's not what my 5.0 help says; it says "matches
any single character".

Oh yeah: I always forget: filePro treats all fields as space padded on
the right to the full length of the field.  I need { not-a-space } at
the end there.

<sigh>

Cheers,
-- jra
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