quotes and equal signs in filter search strings?

[Kris Sorem Sr]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:52:36 -0300 (ADT), Trevor Smith wrote:

>In composing the filter for killer HTML messages, I noticed that
>PMMail does *not* seem to be able to search for strings (at least in
>the body of messages) which include the equal sign (=) or the
>quotation mark ("). The docs specifically say that you should
>'escape' a quote symbol to search for it like this:
>
>  The string to be searched for must appear in quotes. Inside the
>  quoted string, any character may be used, including characters that
>  would have special meaning outside the quotes, such as the
>  parenthesis, Boolean, or evaluator operators. Inside the quoted
>  string, only an escape operator \ (backslash) is observed. This
>  permits quoting the " (quote) character inside a string. For
>  example, the search string "Icon "The Innovator"" would be "Icon
>  \"The Innovator\"".
>
>However, this just plain fails on my machine.

It fails here also.
>
>Searching for strings which include an equals sign also seems to fail
>here.

It fails here as well.
>
>Can anyone confirm this?

I can confirm that searching using the escape character (backslash) fails.
However, using the example given above from the Help file, searching for
the search string "Icon "The Innovator"" ( without backslashes) will work.
You can quote the quote (") character as well as quote the equal sign (=)
without using an escape character. You must insure that you have balanced
quote marks.
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