Problem with filename ruleset for "Remove These Headers"

[Julian Field]

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Ed Bruce wrote:

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> Mike wrote:
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>>>Try renaming RemoveTheseHeaders to RemoveTheseHeaders.rule
>>>Then it should spot that you are putting in a ruleset filename. Without
>>>that, there is no way to distinguish between the name of a header and
>>>the name of a ruleset file.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Strange but true. This indeed seems to work. Strange, because all other rules also do /not/ have a ".rules" appended to it and work perfectly! I will however append ".rules" to all other rulesets, to avoid problems in the futher.
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>>Thanks very much!
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>>>Julian Field
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>>Mike.
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> Ok. Julian says "*.rule" and Mike says "*.rules". Does it matter which
> or do both work, 'cause when I installed MS I was confused by this and
> so some of my files have ".rules" and others ".rule".

Both work just fine. I like doing very fuzzy matching where I can so
that people aren't caught out by silly typos in their setups. I like
parsers to be as imprecise and "accept everything" wherever I can. More
effort on my part, but it makes your lives a lot easier as you can get
away with just about anything that looks sensible. Where that's possible
of course.

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