Spam Filter Rules: CountMatches

Statement	CountMatches
Version	2.3.13+
Purpose	Counts the number of times a specific regular expression matches in a string

CountMatches statements require a data parameter a search value and the name of the variable to place the count into, in the format

CountMatches <data> <search> <variable name>

The <data> paramater is defined in the documentation for IfMatch
The number of times the match occurs is returned into a variable with the name format ${<variable name>}

Example

The following example will scan the body of the incoming message, for the regular expression '/ /' and return the number of matches into the ${numSpaces} variable

CountMatches body "/ /" numSpaces