ietf-nntp Wildmats

[Russ Allbery]

Charles Lindsey <chl at clw.cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

> I wasn't using space as alternation. What would YOU expect to be
> recognised given
> 	(X)PAT Subject 123- *foo,bar bar,baz* ?

I would expect it to be a syntax error.

Transforming " " to "\uXXXX" or whatever, I would expect it to match the
literal subject "bar bar", any subject ending in "foo", and any subject
beginning with "baz".

> No, that would recognise
> 	Subject: xxx foo
> and	Subject: bar yyy
> but not
> 	Subject: foo bar
> or	Subject: xxx foo bar yyy

> because of the requirement that the wildmat is "anchored" at the two ends
> of the string to be matched.

Whoops, yeah, wasn't thinking it all the way through.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>