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From: Veronica Karlsson <acinorev@earthling.net>
Subject: Re: Detecting ASCII art in emails
Date: 2000/04/07
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Ilmari Karonen wrote:
> Wesley Clifford wrote:
> >Joshua E Millard wrote:
> >>lower-weighted factor for your heuristic, but in terms of raw efficiency,
> >>the pipe and slashes are probably more omnipresent in ASCII art and
> >
> >Just don't search through any emails pertaining to Unix or Dos.
> >
> >cat //usr/my_file.txt|grep -i "/[../]"
> 
> ..or Perl.  Here's a script I posted to comp.lang.perl.misc recently:
> 
>   perl -0777pi -e "s%</?a(\\s([^>\"']+|\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*')*)?>%%ig"
                      ^^   ###^^^^^ ^^      ^^^                ^^
                      |     |    |    \      |                 /
                 llizard cheese mouse smile wink    another llizard

looks like typical ascii art to me!  :-)


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