[Pine-info] Filtering unusual ASCII code

[Cornelius C. Noack]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2006, Steve Hubert wrote:


> Pine filter rules have a field called "Charset pattern" down below the 

> To and Subject and so on patterns. A ^T from there will give you lots 

> of possibilities to choose from.

>

> Steve


Thanks, Steve; yours was very helpful advice.

But now I have another (related) question: is there a way to 
search/filter incoming mail in PINE with a kind of regular expression?
What I mean in practice is, e.g. : can I somehow search the 'subject'
text for an item  like 'PH*RMA', finding all entries that contain such
a word, where '*' stands for any sequence of characters? (I guess it is 
obvious how this would be extremely useful!). I read the help files
about PINE filters; but from what I understood, this is NOT feasible in 
the PINE filtering system.
          (i) is my interpretation of the help text correct?
         (ii) if so: can anybody imagine any fix/fudge around it?

Thanks for any hint (solution, or suggestion for how to experiment)!

ccn.
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