in reply to Collapsing Re:'s in Titles.

It looks from your example like it's counting things that aren't just "re". For example: "Re: •Re: Re:" you said would turn into Re^4, but it's only three replies deep.


Dave

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Re^2: Collapsing Re:'s in Titles.
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Jun 02, 2004 at 20:38 UTC

    For example: "Re: &bul;Re: Re:" you said would turn into Re^4, but it's only three replies deep.

    Sorry, maybe I should have been more clear. The sub add_re_to_title takes a title and adds a Re: to it, collapsing whatever Re:'s (and junk) are there. So all of the examples should be like that.


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[d/l]
      I know some people like to change a followup's title entirely (I'll not pass judgement on whether or not that is a good idea; I'll just point out that it happens). That would get clobbered too. Someone might not like that. ;)

      Dave

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        Nothing stopping them either. If you change the title you change the title. All that will happen is the automatic title you first see will be constructed using this mechanism.

        merlyn for instance can still use his annoying • stuff, it just wont get accidentally strewn throughout the replies to his nodes.


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