Wait... I lied. The way I was running it was fooling me.
> set thePattern to "\\|" & channelID & "\\||"
The doubled pipe is the problem.
Your pattern ends with '|', which means "or"... nothing. So it will
match every line that contains the empty string, which is every line.
Undouble that pipe and you're good to go.
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