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In article <870891657snx@warren.demon.co.uk>
           leveret@warren.demon.co.uk "Nick Leverton" writes:

>In article <870774566snz@grempc.demon.co.uk>
>   newsmaster@grempc.demon.co.uk (Graham E Kinns) writes:
>>
>>The downside is not allowing wildcards to match the first character of
>>a header (which IMHO would be grossly inefficient in the present
>>implementation)

>                                      Ummm, you do have 27 lists
>(assuming conversion of tabs-to-spaces), don't you, not 26 ?  Or have
>you made it handle continuations properly ?

Err, no and, um, no :-(  It didn't (and still doesn't) handle any
lines longer than 512 chars properly - the original idea had 27 lists,
the 27th being for anything not beginning A-Z but I dropped it as a
rule starting with a wildcard would need checking against every header
- removing almost all the advantage of rewriting it in the first place
:-(

Adding the 27th for continuation lines and even coping with lines
longer than 512 should be do-able.  I suppose the answer to the 
wildcard problem is to add yet another list for wildcards and [^a-z ]
to be checked against every header.

>Nick, fearful lest asking these questions further delay the release :-)
 
Nah, just gets added to the Known Problems section ;-)

Cheers, Graham.
-- 
Graham E. Kinns
Graham@grempc.demon.co.uk