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Match Word with Different Spellings or Special Characters

Tip:

For information about using regular expressions to match obfuscations for

profane words, see “Block Messages with Profanity” on page 236.

Match Word with Variable Characters

Usage example

Match the word viagra and some of the obfuscations that
spammers use, such as:

vi@gra

v1agra

v1@gra

v!@gr@

Regex example

v[i!1][a@]gr[a@]

Notes

\W

is not included, so that other characters can appear

before or after any of the variants of viagra. For
example, the regex still matches viagra in the following
text:

viagra!! or ***viagra***

[i!1]

matches the characters i, !, or 1 in the second

character postition of the word.

Usage example

Match any URL that contains the text badmail.com, such as:

badmail1.com

badmail12.com

badmail3.com

badmail.junk.com

badmail-junk.com

Regex example

badmail(\w.+%\-){0,25}\.com