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negative regular expressions?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 08, 2025 2:24 am
by spotter
I'm wondering if its possible to do negative regular expressions (my attempt at ?! groups didn't work). i.e. find all posts that don't have a yEnc in them.

Re: negative regular expressions?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 12:54 am
by Quade
You can make a filter profile apply "yenc" as a "Subject Reject" filter then when you want to show only posts with no "yenc" apply the filter profile. It'll then hide all posts with "yEnc" in the subject.

Re: negative regular expressions?

PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 1:45 am
by spotter
yes, I figured that out, just thought there might be value to negative regular expressions as well.

Re: negative regular expressions?

PostPosted: Wed Aug 13, 2025 5:44 pm
by Quade
I'm not an RE expert but it feels like it's primarily for matching not rejecting.

Re: negative regular expressions?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2025 7:02 am
by spotter
I think they are the same. in this case, I want to see what text posts were posted in a group, not binaries, so I want to match everything that says it isn't a binary.