[Pan-users] Composing regex for Pan

[Michael R. McCarrey]

I tried sending this on Saturday, but it never appeared on the list. I
apologise for resending it, should it pop up later.
------------------------
Hi All,

I'm using Pan 0.14.2 on Linux.

I've been pulling my hair out (what little of it remains, that is),
trying to construct a regex mainly to filter out subjects that contain
all caps, as in: "HAVE EVERYTHING NOW!" amd "MAKE YOUR WILLY BIGGER
TODAY", as well as things like "*** GET IT NOW ***" and "$$$$ MAKE MORE
mOney ToDaY $$$$$".

I've waded through the source tree and docs, looking for something to
explain how to construct a regex that will match strings like those, but
to no avail. My programming experience is limited to BASIC and Assembly,
so anything in C, much more involved than the K&R's "hello world" looks
like someone was very angry with the alphabet. A Python is a large
aquatic snake and women wear perls around their necks (which might be
most of the problem).

Earlier in the list, someone commented that Pan's regex parsing was case
insensitive (and had to be enabled manually - "how" was not mentioned),
which explains, I think, why [A-Z] [^a-z] makes everything disappear.

I installed the regex coach awhile back to help me do this, but what
seems to work with it, either does nothing in Pan, or eliminates
everything.

The web is a wasteland of things that work for everyone else, too.

I'm still working on it, but any suggestions would be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

-- 
Professionals built the Titanic ...
   Amateurs built the Ark
Forever, oh Lord, Thy Word is Settled in Heaven. Psalms 119:89