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GMail supports perl style regex  |  (2007/02/26 19:35)

I knew that Google's Code Search supported regex style searches, but I didn't realize that GMail did too.

Gmail supports a slightly different syntax than Code Search though. It's the perl syntax, so, if you're reading this, there's a good chance you're familiar with it. If not, you can read about perl regex syntax

As an example, if I want to quickly check that nothing related to my upcoming talk has been thrown in the spam filter (which it had, argh), but I didn't want to hear about windows vista warez, I could do:
blackhat OR scarabmon in:spam -/windows vista.*download/
A quick search on google doesn't show anything useful in the first few entries so I'm posting this in hopes of letting people know.

PS: for a great intro to google's code search, check out Dug Song's Static Code Analysis Using Google Code Search

UPDATE: I was wrong about standard google search, it's just gmail

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