A regex was offer in another group for some of the spam being posted
in there.
${0-9]{5}
later revised to {0-9]{5}$
that is supposed to filter messages that have 5 (or more) numbers at
the end of the subject line.
It would be helpful in another group that has a huge amount of those
type messages , but when attempting to add it as a filter into agent
it will give me a syntax error.
Anyone willing to figure out how to get this to work as a filter in
agent?
thanks for your time
Me

On Thu, 11 May 2023 13:12:01 -0600, james moffat
<spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

>A regex was offer in another group for some of the spam being posted
>in there.
>${0-9]{5}
>later revised to {0-9]{5}$
>that is supposed to filter messages that have 5 (or more) numbers at
>the end of the subject line.
>It would be helpful in another group that has a huge amount of those
>type messages , but when attempting to add it as a filter into agent
>it will give me a syntax error.
>Anyone willing to figure out how to get this to work as a filter in
>agent?
>thanks for your time
>Me

Try Author:{0-9]{5}$

KenW

james moffat wrote:

>A regex was offer in another group for some of the spam being posted
>in there.
>${0-9]{5}
>later revised to {0-9]{5}$

First, you can't combine square and curly brackets like here: {...].
Second, Agent's RegEx dialect is not very capable. You cant't use
{5} as a quantifier.

>that is supposed to filter messages that have 5 (or more) numbers at
>the end of the subject line.

Try this:

subject: {[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]+$}

Manfred

In Message-ID:<52fq5idl8i67o5n5u24u516uottvdchr7h@4ax.com>,
james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

>A regex was offer in another group for some of the spam being posted
>in there.
>${0-9]{5}
>later revised to {0-9]{5}$
>that is supposed to filter messages that have 5 (or more) numbers at
>the end of the subject line.
>It would be helpful in another group that has a huge amount of those
>type messages , but when attempting to add it as a filter into agent
>it will give me a syntax error.
>Anyone willing to figure out how to get this to work as a filter in
>agent?

First, you obviously didn't copy/paste it correctly as there's a ]
with no [.

Second, it shouldn't work because Agent's REs don't support the
repetition number. And "$" matches the end of the field; "^" matches
the beginning.

So, you might try:
subject: {[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]$}

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In Message-ID:<52fq5idl8i67o5n5u24u516uottvdchr7h@4ax.com>,
james moffat <spam.spam@distributel.net> wrote:

And I'm going to have to remember to read *all* of the replies before
piping up. Sorry.

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On Thu, 11 May 2023 22:59:45 +0200, Manfred Polak <ma.po@gmx.com>
wrote:

>First, you can't combine square and curly brackets like here: {...].
>Second, Agent's RegEx dialect is not very capable. You cant't use
>{5} as a quantifier.
>
.....
>
>Try this:
>
>subject: {[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]+$}

Could you please explain the role of the "+"?

tia
cr
>

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On Thu, 11 May 2023 22:59:45 +0200, Manfred Polak <ma.po@gmx.com>
wrote:

>james moffat wrote:
>
>>A regex was offer in another group for some of the spam being posted
>>in there.
>>${0-9]{5}
>>later revised to {0-9]{5}$
>
>First, you can't combine square and curly brackets like here: {...].
>Second, Agent's RegEx dialect is not very capable. You cant't use
>{5} as a quantifier.
>

Old age syndrome. A combination of fat fingers and bad eye sight
combining to mistype the {[ ]}
sorry.

>>that is supposed to filter messages that have 5 (or more) numbers at
>>the end of the subject line.
>
>Try this:
>
>subject: {[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]+$}
>
>
>Manfred
No syntax error, so will try it out and see if it is functioning as I
intended it to.
thanks for your time
Me

Charlie Roberts wrote:

>>subject: {[0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]+$}
>
>Could you please explain the role of the "+"?

It means "one or more instances of the preceding term", in this case
"one or more digits".

Manfred