Re: (Perl) Regular Expressions - oposite match or get the non-matches of a substring
| From: | Per Jessen | Date: | Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:25:35 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: (Perl) Regular Expressions - oposite match or get the non-matches of a substring | ||
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German Geek wrote:
> I consider myself quite good with Regular Expression, but i could
> never find out how to match something like:
>
> "match this but not this and that"
>
> so i would like to match the first "match this" (or "another this")
> but not "not this".
>
> Seems pretty straight forward but i haven't found a (good) solution
> yet.
Check out "look-around" (-behind, -ahead), here for instance:
http://www.regular-expressions.info/refadv.html
> Surprisingly i couldn't figure out how to say '/!(not) this/'. Seems
!/this/
/Per
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Per Jessen, Zürich (0.4°C)