ietf-nntp Wildmats

[Clive D. W. Feather]

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 In message <87y9ugjvbm.fsf at erlenstar.demon.co.uk>, Andrew Gierth 
 <andrew at erlenstar.demon.co.uk> writes
>actually, it's not. INN-CURRENT contains a wildmat routine that
>includes support for ',','!' and '@', but it does not in fact make use
>of it in a way that conforms with the proposed text. In particular,
>commands like NEWNEWS that previously worked with a comma-delimited
>list still split the supplied pattern on ',' characters without regard
>for quoting.

 What does it do about backslash quoting ? As in:

     abc\,def

>I want to be able to match the components right-to-left rather than
>left-to-right in some contexts (the rightmost match wins, after all).

 So ? Commas can occur in three places: between patterns, escaped with 
 backslash, and within brackets. I don't see L-R and R-L searching being 
 quantitatively different.

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