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From: efinley%sunset.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Elliott Finley)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Wildcarding in RN Kill Files
Message-ID: <1989Nov25.133434.29997@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 25 Nov 89 20:34:34 GMT
References: <1989Nov24.214512.17908@athena.mit.edu>
Reply-To: efinley%sunset.utah.edu.UUCP@cs.utah.edu (Elliott Finley)
Organization: University of Utah, Computer Science Dept.
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(William December Starr) writes:

     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.  

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Instead of just using a '*' you need to use '.*'

A '*' will match zero or more occurrences of the character directly
preceding it.  A '.' will match any character, therefore a '.*' will
match any string.  An entry like /.*soundtrack.*/:j will do what you need.

                                Elliot