[Mailman-Users] Help with regular expression filters

[e.c.]

At least in Emacs the following regexp works

\_<test\_>

that finds 'test' but not 'fastest' or 'testy'

bash, perl, ruby, etc. may have different ways of doing the same thing.

ed

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:46 PM, Marino Pascal <mpascal at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a filter to block the word "test" from Subject because some people
> won't receive list mail for a few hours and think it's broken so they post
> "test"
> And once one person does it everybody else feels obligated to "test".
> So I use
> Subject: .*test
> Problem with that is that it also blocks "latest" and "testimony".
> I suck at regular expressions and would appreciate some help.
> I also don't have a test list to test this :)
>
> Thanks
> Marino Pascal
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