Thank you. Hans.  I'll try  that.

Gordon

I am puzzled.  I am trying to remove spam that is concerned with "watches", where the "w" is written as "\/\/" using forward and backward slash characters.  Using "obfuscation" doesn't seem to do the job in this case, so I have tried:

 if SUBJECT CONTAINS "\/\/atches" weight 51

However, that doesn't work either.  If I was trying to use a regular expression, I presume that I would need to "escape" the / character, but I thought that "CONTAINS" was quite literal.  What am I doing wrong?

Thank you

Gordon

I seem to have been able to do what I am looking for with:

if SUBJECT MATCHES "\*\*atches" weight 51 

However, I can't seem to find a way of "escaping" the "/" character.  The manual says that brackets can be used to define a special character literally, but I can't seem to get this to work with "/".  Can this be done?.

Thank you

Gordon

I'm sorry to ask this again, but I imagine someone must know the answer.  Is it possible to escape the "/" character used in regex, for it to be interpreted literally?  If so, how?  It won't seem to work the same way as escaping "*" does, for example.  I've searched the site, the manual and the Internet and haven't found anything.  Apologies, if I missed it somewhere.

Thank you

Gordon

Hi Gordon

You might try to repeat the escape character - which is "\" - like this:

if SUBJECT CONTAINS "\\/\\/atches" weight 51

Hope this helps,

Hans