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From: rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen)
Subject: Re: regular expressions
Message-ID: <89Aug30.124846edt.2300@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
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Date: 30 Aug 89 16:49:48 GMT

>   Date: 25 Aug 89 16:12:23 GMT
>   From: maart@star.cs.vu.nl  (Maarten Litmaath)
>   Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

>   I've always wanted to be able to do something like the following:

>	   case $domain in
>	   \(.*\)\.\(.*\)\.edu)
>		   department=\1
>		   university=\2
>	   *)
>		   # ...
>	   esac

>   instead of ...

You will obviously like the ZMailer configuration language: a modern shell
with exactly this extension (originally in the case statement but it will
be a 'sift' statement in the next version).  Oh, and the way to write it
is

sift $domain in
(.)\.(.)\.edu)
	department=\1
	university=\2
	;;
tfis

because I use token-based REs.

rayan