From: Erland Sommarskog (sommar-usefor@algonet.se)
Date: Sun Apr 19 1998 - 18:01:33 CDT
Henry Spencer <henry@spsystems.net> writes:
> However, you can usually count on it being at least *part* of a previous
> subject, which may be useful in deciding whether to display it. Having
> a standard convention strikes me as useful. As with conventions in the
> message body, it isn't absolutely reliable, but if there is reasonably
> consistent adherence to it, it can be useful to user interfaces even if
> violations do occur.
If this conventios is to be any useful, you will have to make it
more general, for instanace saying that any occurrence of
/\([^:]+:\s[^)]+\s*/ (to use a Perl reg-exp, see below) reflects a
subject change.
That is, any thing which starts off with left parenthesis followed
by anything and then has ": " followed by more characters and a
closing parenthesis.
Constraining the string between the opening parenthetsis and the
colon to be exactly "was" does not appear very useful to me.
-- Erland Sommarskog, Stockholm, sommar@algonet.se