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<span style=" font-family:'courier new'; font-size: 9pt; color: #800000;"><b>ON> Gregory,<br>
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>> But I'm confused. Why does the first match use:<br>
>> $'i<br>
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>> $'ix for the second?<br>
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ON> amavis is written in Perl, this is Perl syntax: i stands for case<br>
ON> insensitive: the regexp would match .exe and .EXE and .eXe etc.<br>
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ON> x means extended, you can have spaces in the regexp and they will be<br>
ON> ignored, that adds readability to your regexp.<br>
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ON> Bests,<br>
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ON> Olivier<br>
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</b><span style=" color: #000000;">Ah, yes! That does make more sense. My Perl-foo is weak. [I can bash together rudimentary Thag-cave-man style things, but didn't recognize this.]<br>
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Thanks<br>
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