[thelist] Perl regexp question

Dean Mah dmah at members.evolt.org
Tue Sep 3 17:37:01 CDT 2002


See:

   http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/1521/05_Content-Transfer-Encoding.html#5.1

The = sign indicates that the next two characters are hexadecimal and
represent the character being encoded.

Dean


On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:40:24PM +0200, Richard Bennett wrote:

> Also a good idea, but with the same limitation, I'd need to do it to each
> line of the email, which would give wrong results if there was another =
> somewhere.
>
> It seems my problem wasn't so much with the reqexp, but with users sending
> html email.
> For some reason the string changed to:
> project=3Dmain instead of project=main.
>
> Does anyone know where the 3D comes from, and whether it's a fixed value I
> can parse out, or whether it could change?



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