[tin-users] Help for filtering regex

[Joe]

Thank you!

I should have read the man page better!
Thanks again
bye

On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 3:18 PM, Dennis Preiser <dennis at d--p.de> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 02:52:52PM +0200, Joe wrote:
>> Anyway, just for curiosity, where this information (I mean tin
>> filtering regex are in pcre style) is "formally" written? I couldn't
>> find it on the man pages nor at the site docs...
>
> It can be found in the man page (tin(1)) under 'Wildcard matching':
>
> |        Wildcard matching (wildcard)
> |            Allows you to select how tin matches strings. The default is
> |            0  and  uses  the wildmat  notation,  which  is how this has
> |            traditionally been handled.  Setting this to 1 allows you to
> |            use perl(1) compatible regular expressions pcre(3) (see also
> |            perlre(1) and pcrepattern(3)).  You will probably want to
> |            update your filter file if you use this regularly.  NB:
> |            Newsgroup names will always be matched using the wildmat
> |            notation.
>
> and in tin(5) under 'wildcard'.
>
> Dennis
>
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