"Rules": How to specify string?

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Paul Berkowitz

Is there a way in "Rules" to limit a string to a space-delimited string?

For example, blocking "iCal" also blocks "technical".
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Type a space. It works. (You mean you didn't try it before asking? Tsk. ;-))
I even block subjects containing " " (no quotes).

Most other text fields (e,g, in contacts) remove leading and trailing
spaces, but not Rules.

You should have a Match <if ANY>, and as well as

<Subject> <Contains> <iCal >

you should also have

<Subject> <Ends with> <iCal>

because that one won't have a space at the end.

Neither will catch "technical".

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Barry N. Wainwright

<Subject> <Ends with> <iCal>

because that one won't have a space at the end.

Neither will catch "technical".
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I think it will ??

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Gnarlodious

Entity Barry N. Wainwright spoke thus:
I think it will ??
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Works here!
Trying it on the comp.sys.mac.system group it blocks ""iCal" but allows:

Technical
Optical
Automatically
medical
programmatically
political
magically

Thanks, Paul!

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Paul Berkowitz

I think it will ??
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Oopps, sorry, the last one will, if "technical" is the last word. I meant to
say:

<Subject> <Ends with> < iCal>

with a space at the beginning. These two conditions (<ANY>) should take care
of things:

<Subject> <Contains> <iCal > -- space at end
<Subject> <Ends with> < iCal> -- space at beginning



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