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From: chip@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG (Chip Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: wanted: another macro for 'rn'
Message-ID: <868@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG>
Date: 11 Feb 90 19:04:21 GMT
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Organization: Unicom Systems Development, Austin (yay!)
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In article <862@chinacat.Lonestar.ORG> I make an ass of myself:
>How about this macro:
>	@=	/%s/=\n

Arrgh!!  That does very strange things if the subject contains a slash.
The following will handle it:

	@=	/%`echo "%s" | sed -e 's|/|\\\\/|g'`/=\n

Obviously this is going to be much slower.  You could compromise with
something using %( ? : ) which would handle a single slash -- that wouldn't
involve the shell escape.  Just don't use it to search a thread with a
subject something like "need TCP/IP for Apple ///".
-- 
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