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Re: block empty messages?
In Response To: Re: block empty messages? ()
Hi Julian.
Glad the code works on your end.
... must admit I'ld bet to have thrown in a couple of typos
: Thank you very much, always a pleasure to ask you thinks and get
: the problems solved in only some hours!
Thanks for the compliment
: Because I'm curious: Can you tell me what the code exactly does? I
: think I unterstand it all except this line:
$teststring : =~ s/<.+?>//gi;
Supposed to remove HMTL ...., well ..... remove everything wrapped in lower than and greater than brackets, which can be assumed to be HTML
.... the "<.+?>" actually is ...
- a "<"
- followed by any character
- at least one such character
- non-greedy matching
- up to the next ">"
Have a nice Sunday, Julian.
Rainer

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