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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Ray Dunn)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: rn environment values
Message-ID: <938@philmtl.philips.ca>
Date: 10 Jan 90 23:20:00 GMT
Reply-To: ray@philmtl (Ray Dunn)
Organization: Philips Electronics Ltd.  Montreal.
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I'm trying to construct a warning that I'm following up to a Followup-to
line rather than to the Newsgroups line, by inserting a test in the
NEWSHEADER variable.

Unfortunately it would appear that a percent escape cannot appear as the
"pattern" in the construct:

%(test_text=pattern?then_text:else_text)

In other words, the following, and its variations, does not work,
irrespective of the values of %F (new Newsgroups line) and %n (old
Newsgroups line):

%(%F=%n?:Warning - Followup-to different from %n)

Does anyone have any suggestions?  Comments?

Thanks.
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