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<node id="282681" title="Automatic Re-ing with numbers" created="2003-08-10 16:51:00" updated="2005-07-07 15:06:36">
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monkdiscuss</type>
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liz</author>
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Please excuse me if this has been discussed before: searching on very common keywords did not provide with any conclusions.
&lt;P&gt;
Many monks change the prefix of the title of response nodes by setting
&lt;pre&gt;
Re^(number):
&lt;/pre&gt;
instead of just keeping the extra "Re: " that was prefixed.  I like this a lot, but frequently forget to do it myself.
&lt;P&gt;
So, lazy as I am, I wonder why this process isn't automatic?  Basically do a:
&lt;code&gt;
$title = "Re: $title" unless
 $title =~ s#^Re^?(\d*):#'Re^'.(defined $1 ? $1 + 1 : 2).':'#e;
&lt;/code&gt;
on the title of a node before being placed in the form.  Does this make sense?
&lt;P&gt;
Liz</field>
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