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Subject:	Regex for mutations of "unsubscribe" (was: Re: unsusbscribe lego-robotics)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.geek
Date:	Thu, 26 Aug 1999 00:37:34 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Don <don@server.cscmicro.com> (Don) writes: > unsusbscribe lego-robotics At first glance, I thought there was a bug in the news<->mail gateway which allowed this article through. But the word "unsubscribe" is actually misspelled. =:*p Anyone know of a good regex to catch mutations/misspellings of this word? According to the text indexer for the ngs, it's been misspelled quite a few ways so far: unsubcribe unsubscibe unsubsribe unsusbscribe unsuscribe unsuscripe --Todd

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		Re: Regex for mutations of "unsubscribe" (was: Re: unsusbscribe lego-robotics)
In lugnet.off-topic.geek, thou, Todd Lehman (lehman@javanet.com), hast wrytted... (...) Mmmmm gotta love trying to outsmart the idiots. Here's something that might help (this is a Perl5 regex): unsu(s\|[pb]\|[pb]s\|s[...i\w*?[pb]e It also catches (...) (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)

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