by corsairius » Sat Jan 12, 2002 3:20 am
>First off, I think you may be better off using the "Find in >Subject" feature on the main screen. It bypasses all filters >and will allow you to adjust your RegEx to show the headers you >want so you can mark them for download.
I was wondering if there was a facility to check regex patterns ... thanks!
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>I'd have to play with the accept/reject stuff to remember the >order of precedence. Maybe Quade will know off the top of his >head. The file filters are applied when the post is actually >downloaded because we don't know the true name of the file >until we download the first part. I filter on .exe, .scr, .vbs, >stuff like that which may contain viruses. The subject filters >are applied during header download but you can toggle by >clicking the "Show Filtered Posts" checkbox just to see if they >are doing the job.
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<Matching is case insensitive, in fact a RegEx entered in <the "Find in Subject" field will be forced to upper case after <entered but case is ignored.
Much easier when it's case insensitive. Actually thought that NB _was_ case sensitive, but my problem was just an ungrouped filter pattern, "xyz|abc" instead of "(xyz)|(abc)". The example page for the RegEx on the Newsbin site indicates the use of parentheses in an un-escaped format that indicated a pattern for parentheses instead of grouping.
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<BTW, we do support character ranges so you can use [1-5] <instead of [12345]. Could save some typing.
It makes sense to do so. I just listed out the eps already downloaded, and enumerating them made it easier to check them off. I also had to go straight to the FILTERS.XML file to edit the pattern, since the gui wouldn't let me enter a trailing asterisk, etc. Well, I really DON'T know what it wouldn't let me enter, but I couldn't add a mask that was similar to other entries and differed only by the enumeration described above.
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<Hope this helps.
It did. Thank You. Still curious to find out how the reject/accept filters interact.