help with regular expression (for spam catching)

From: Chris W. Parker (cparker_at_swatgear.com)
Date: 06/04/04

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    hello.

    i have no idea what this would be called or if it's even possible with
    one line of a regex so that's why i'm coming to the list.

    everyone can identify words like:

      viagra
      v1agra
      v1@gr@
      vi@gra
      etc.

    but how do you identify those same words when random punctuation is
    thrown in?

      vi.agra
      v1a;gr.a
      etc.

    is it possible for a regular expression to do something like the
    following:

    1. first identify the following string:
        /v[!1i\|][a@]gr[a@]/
    2. then check to see if there are any of the following characters in
    there somewhere:
        /[\.;:\/]/

    i guess you *could* do something like the following:

     
    /v[\.;:\/]?[!1i\|][\.;:\/]?[a@][\.;:\/]?g[\.;:\/]?r[\.;:\/]?[a@][\.;:\/]
    ?/

    but that just seems overly complicated... ?

    any suggestions?

    thanks,
    chris. 

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