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Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14793]

Thu, 20 November 2003 22:15

Squeebee

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I am looking at the message body mangling, and I would like to remove any line that begins with a > to strip quoting (or maybe can it be converted to a fudcode quote block?) and also like to remove anything after a -- line:

Quote:

--
MySQL General Mailing List
For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql
To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=mhlists(at)telus(dot)net

That is a standard footer I want to remove when I get mailing list importing working.

Thanks for your help, I haven't had time to learn regular expressions all that well yet.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14796 is a reply to message #14793]

Thu, 20 November 2003 23:21

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"--[\r\n]+MySQL General Mailing List.*" regex and 'm' pattern modifier should do it.

P.S. phpbb conversion script is done, you can get a copy here:
http://fud.prohost.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=1479

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14797 is a reply to message #14793]

Thu, 20 November 2003 23:30

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You link goes to a post titled "FUDforum 1.2.5 Released" I think it may be in error.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14798 is a reply to message #14797]

Thu, 20 November 2003 23:36

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http://fud.prohost.org/forum/index.php?t=msg&goto=14795 is the correct link, I 'lost' a number when doing copy paste.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14803 is a reply to message #14793]

Fri, 21 November 2003 00:07

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Nice, but I have to report that I lost 253 users in the process and 600+ posts, let me see what kind of information I can find...

Ok, here's my import script running:

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Actually when I ran it the second time everything came in... odd but at least it worked.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14805 is a reply to message #14803]

Fri, 21 November 2003 00:22

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Dunno, in all my tests it imported all the data (messages & users).

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14809 is a reply to message #14793]

Fri, 21 November 2003 02:42

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Well, it dropped a bunch during the consistency check. But as it worked on the second pass I am quite happy.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14889 is a reply to message #14793]

Mon, 24 November 2003 20:50

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Ok, back to the topic that was at hand.

I tried what you suggested as you see in the attachment, but the footer is not going away. Am I implementing your suggestion correctly?

Attachment: mailinglist.jpg
(Size: 397.90KB, Downloaded 812 times)

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14893 is a reply to message #14889]

Mon, 24 November 2003 21:09

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In my local test on the regular expression it appeard to work correctly...

Plus from what I can see in the picture you didn'r copy the regex correctly, you have _ and ! in it, which I didn't have.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14895 is a reply to message #14793]

Mon, 24 November 2003 21:23

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Hmm, odd.

Just to clarify:

"--[\r\n]+MySQL General Mailing List.*"

Goes in the first box (with double quotes)

'm'

Goes in the second box (with quotes)

Third box below has nothing in it.

Right?

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14897 is a reply to message #14895]

Mon, 24 November 2003 21:58

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correct.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14898 is a reply to message #14793]

Mon, 24 November 2003 22:02

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Ok, it is driving me nuts. Here is the line from the mlist table:

SELECT *
FROM `fud26_mlist`

+----+----------+-----------------------+------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+-----------+
| id | forum_id | name                  | subject_regex_haystack | subject_regex_needle | body_regex_haystack                        | body_regex_needle | additional_headers | mlist_opt |
+----+----------+-----------------------+------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+-----------+
|  1 |       36 | mysql(at)lists(dot)mysql(dot)com |                        |                      | /"--[\r\n]+MySQL General Mailing List.*"/m |                   |                    |        34 |
+----+----------+-----------------------+------------------------+----------------------+--------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+-----------+

But I am not getting the tag stripped.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14899 is a reply to message #14898]

Mon, 24 November 2003 22:09

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Hmm try removing the "m" flag, leave the flag window blank.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14901 is a reply to message #14793]

Mon, 24 November 2003 22:19

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Thanks for all the help, in return I have paypaled you the measly amount in my PayPal account. It's not much, but hopefully it gets you a cup of coffee for your trouble.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14903 is a reply to message #14793]

Mon, 24 November 2003 22:21

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Oh, and just so you know the removal of the m did not help.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14904 is a reply to message #14903]

Mon, 24 November 2003 22:26

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could you send me (As file attachment) 1 complete message from the mailing list and I'll try the regex myself.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14905 is a reply to message #14793]

Mon, 24 November 2003 22:29

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Please find attached.

Attachment: listmessage.txt
(Size: 2.08KB, Downloaded 779 times)

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14906 is a reply to message #14905]

Tue, 25 November 2003 00:53

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Instead of "m" modifier use "s" modifier.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14915 is a reply to message #14793]

Tue, 25 November 2003 04:50

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Sorry to be a pain, but I am still meeting with failure. I have tried various combinations of m, s, quotes, no quotes. Still no success. This is not a serious issue for me as the footer is little more than a basic message, but I would like to eventually handle it.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14919 is a reply to message #14915]

Tue, 25 November 2003 13:01

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"--[\r\n]+MySQL General Mailing List.*" regex plus "s" modifier work fine, I've tested the code...

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14924 is a reply to message #14793]

Tue, 25 November 2003 13:46

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Ok I will try again. Would I include the double quotes or not?

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14925 is a reply to message #14924]

Tue, 25 November 2003 14:00

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ofcourse not.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14926 is a reply to message #14793]

Tue, 25 November 2003 14:05

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Hehe, well you never know.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #14927 is a reply to message #14793]

Tue, 25 November 2003 14:15

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Anyway, this is what I have in my table under the body haystack:

/--[\n\r]+MySQL General Mailing List/s

It is not working, but I take your word for it that it should work, I will therefore just assume something is awry with something else involved and assume the string provided is good.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #23901 is a reply to message #14793]

Mon, 04 April 2005 21:20

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I can't seem to find an answer to the original question asked in this thread, namely how to strip over-quoting that comes in via a mailing list. That is, stripping anything following ">" or ">>".

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #23912 is a reply to message #23901]

Tue, 05 April 2005 14:12

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Add the "(> )+" replace mask to body mangling.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #24031 is a reply to message #23912]

Sat, 09 April 2005 20:28

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Ilia wrote on Tue, 05 April 2005 07:12

Add the "(> )+" replace mask to body mangling.

This only eliminates the >'s themselves, not the text that follows them. Is that possible?

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #24032 is a reply to message #24031]

Sat, 09 April 2005 20:33

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That's the purpose of that regex, just to eliminate things like > > > etc...

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #24078 is a reply to message #24032]

Thu, 14 April 2005 00:39

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OK, no big deal. I'll continue to use majordomo for that.
Thanks.

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Re: Body mangling in a mailing list [message #24681 is a reply to message #24078]

Mon, 09 May 2005 09:42

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hello, you should use these:

for removing "-- " and after that:

"^--[\s\r]*\n"
"s"
""

for removing ">" lines (you should easily change that to fud quoting)

"^(>\s*)+.*"
"s"
""

Hope works. I didn't try them :)

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