On Wed, Oct 10 2018, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > - next if $suppress_cc{'sob'} and $what =~ /Signed-off-by/i; > + next if $suppress_cc{'sob'} and $what =~ /^Signed-off-by$/i; > + next if $suppress_cc{'misc-by'} > + and $what =~ /-by$/i and $what !~ /^Signed-off-by$/i; > next if $suppress_cc{'bodycc'} and $what =~ /Cc/i; Looks good, FWIW I was curious if this could be: next if $suppress_cc{'misc-by'} and $what =~ /(?<!^Signed-off)-by$/; But found that as soon as you add a /i Perl will barf on it, and in any case makes sense to be less clever about regex features.