Re: regex with nots in it

From: Ben Holness (usenet_at_bens-house.org.uk)
Date: 10/06/03 

Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 13:40:28 +0100

>> doesn't do what I want :( perlre suggests that it's easier to have it as
>> two regular expressions, which is what I was trying to avoid.
>
>
> Why? It's a perfectly valid suggestion.

The system I have built checks messages for particular content. The
content is defined in a database, so if I need more than one regex, I need
to implement some slightly more clever code than just getting the regex
from the db and matching :)

The suggestions from yourself and Anno are what I needed though;

/Perl(?!.*PHP)/ does exactly what I need :)

Thanks,

Ben

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