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body mangling - regex [message #27478]

Fri, 09 September 2005 12:14

davidgordon

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I want to remove a multi line mailing list footer from emails imported to FUDForum using maillist.php

I'm a little hard of thinking when it comes to regex. Would someone save me from having to do the advanced course and show me how to remove something like

--------------------------
Mailing List
Line about posting
Another line about archive
--------------------------

for example?

I have tried entering the footer in the body mangling section of the Mailing List Manager but am only able to enter the first line. This gets removed as expected! But how can I remove the whole multi line footer?

Thanks you

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Re: body mangling - regex [message #27486 is a reply to message #27478]

Fri, 09 September 2005 14:00

Ilia

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Well you can remove everything from the start of the footer till the end. So if the footer starts with something like:

-------------------

your regex can be

-------------------.*$
and set "s" flag

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Re: body mangling - regex [message #27506 is a reply to message #27478]

Fri, 09 September 2005 15:28

davidgordon

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Thanks. When I copy my original footer (and add the required regex) I can only paste the first line into the body mangling fields of Mailing List Manager. Is there a limit to the size? Or is there a problem because I am trying to enter a multi line footer?

I'm running FUDForum 2.7.2RC1

Thank you.

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Re: body mangling - regex [message #27507 is a reply to message #27506]

Fri, 09 September 2005 15:36

Ilia

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If you enter a multi-line footer you need format it so that it is on one line.

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Re: body mangling - regex [message #27508 is a reply to message #27486]

Fri, 09 September 2005 16:13

davidgordon

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Ilia wrote on Fri, 09 September 2005 10:00

your regex can be

-------------------.*$
and set "s" flag

I'm sorry but I find this quite difficult!

I tried the above suggestion but the result is "No Message Body" - all my message is stripped out.

Should there not be a "^" characture to show the start of the string I wish to remove? Does having a hyphen ("-") act as a regex command and need escaped? I'm not sure what the "s" flag does.

I'm sure this is very easy really...

Thank you again.

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Re: body mangling - regex [message #27511 is a reply to message #27508]

Fri, 09 September 2005 20:21

Ilia

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Take a look @ pcre regex examples on php.net this is the engine powering FUDforum's message mangling mechanism.

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