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10.4: Use regular expressions in Mail 2.0
Authored by: ryo on May 25, '05 03:01:48PM

The title of this hint really should be changed to something like "Use boolean expressions in Mail 2.0" since the expressions used in the examples are *not* regular expressions at all but boolean expressions (expressions using the terms 'and', 'or', and 'not').

I know it may sound pedantic, but I got really excited when I read the title and was then let-down when I read the article and found out that, no, Mail still does not recognize regular expressions. I've been hoping and waiting for OS X to have native regular expression search capabilities for a long time now - hence the let-down.

Ah Spotlight with regular expressions! How cool would that be?



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