[Gllug] How can I revert a mail digest?

[Alex Hudson]

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 4:34 pm, you wrote:
> > Actually, they're not superfluous. They're needed in order to correctly
> > bound the alternates specified by the pipe. Without them, you'd
> > incorrectly match:
> >
> > 	formailrocmail
> > 	formaiprocmail
>
> Actually, no.

I would have thought yes: I agree with tet, although the tightest regex would 
be more like:

	$s=~m~^(?:formail|procmail(?:ex|rc)?)$~;

(where $s contain the string we're matching against  - above in Perl :)
.. since (formail|procmail(ex|rc)?) will match formailrc (for example).

Cheers,
					Alex.

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