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From: wdstarr@athena.mit.edu (William December Starr)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Wildcarding in RN Kill Files
Summary: How do I do it?
Message-ID: <1989Nov24.214512.17908@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 24 Nov 89 21:45:12 GMT
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How can I build a killfile that will match on a character string
within the subject line of an article, regardless of what, if any,
characters precede or follow that string?

For example, I don't care about articles in rec.arts.movies that deal
with movie soundtracks.  What I'd like to do is put into my
~/.../wdstarr/rec/arts/movies/Kill file something like:

	/*oundtrack*/:j

where either asterisk will match on anything.  

I tried reading TFM and, under the heading "Regular Expressions," I
was referred to TFM for the "ed" editor.  I tried reading that and my
eyes glazed over and fell out of my head -- it felt as if I was trying
to decipher IBM documentation from 1977. 

Can anyone please help me on this?  (By the way, I'd also like to know
whether pattern matching in RN is case-specific or not -- will

	/: Soundtracks/:j

cause a match when the actual subject line is "soundtracks"?)