Re: Rule for the SOFTWARE spam

[Michael Monnerie <m....@zmi.at>]

On Sonntag, 30. Oktober 2005 20:20 Daniel Watts wrote:

I'm not The God Of Regex, but maybe that helps:

> body SOFTWARE_SPAM_BODY2 /(\$\d{1,3}\.\d{0,2}){10,}/s
> #matches $xx.xx at least 10 times

If you have "$133", your rule doesn't fit, as you forgot the ".". Try
body SOFTWARE_SPAM_BODY2 /\$\d{1,3}(?:\.|)\d{0,2}/

But I'm not sure what your rule should do - it would only find 
"$1$12$12$133$133$1$1$1$1$1" and such - did you want to find a 
$<number>, or just ten $$$$ signs ?

body TENDOLLARSIGNS /\${10,})/

> body SOFTWARE_SPAM_BODY3 /( \- ){10,}/s                         
> #matches at least 10 hyphens with spaces round them

This finds " -  -  -  -  -  -  -" (just 10x -), always with a space 
before and after, so 2 spaces between each "-". Probably you wanted 
this:

body SOFTWARE_SPAM_BODY3 / \-{10,} /

you don't need the brackets. Have a look at 
http://perldoc.perl.org/index-tutorials.html and there "perlrequick" 
and "perlretut".

mfg zmi
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