[Mimedefang] FOLLOWUP Q - Using a db for subject lines to blo ck

[Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com]

Matthew.van.Eerde wrote:
> Matthew wrote:
>> Ken wrote:
>>> David F. Skoll wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You are now converting an O(1) or possibly O(log N) database lookup
>>>> into an O(N) or possibly O(N log N) scan through the database (N is
>>>> the number of keys in the database table.)
>>> 
>>> Thinking about this a bit more, my objective was to just try to deal
>>> with keywords that were spaced out "l i k e  t h i s".
>>> 
>>> Here's a new addition to the subject-line block rule that will help
>>> some, for those who are interested.
>>> 
>>>         $lc_subject =~ s!((^|\s)\S\s(\S(\s|$)){2,})!
>>>             my $lc_subject_x=$1;$lc_subject_x=~s/\s//g;sprintf
>>> "%s"," $lc_subject_x ";!ego;
>> 
>> Here's a reimplementation...
>> 1 while $lc_subject =~ s/\b(\S)\s(\S)\b/$1$2/g;
> 
> Never mind - my implementation makes F R E E become FR EE... working
> on it 

Here we go... cheat, use tabs...

# $lc_subject eq 'f r e e stuff'

1 while $lc_subject =~ s/\b(\S) (\S)\b/$1\t$2/g;

# $lc_subject eq 'f	r	e	e stuff'

$lc_subject =~ s/\t//g;

# $lc_subject eq 'free stuff'

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