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in reply to Regexp: Match anything except a certain word

Sounds like you want a negative look-ahead? Aren't those expressed something like $test=~/<a.+?(?!target).+?>/;?

Sort of guessing at the form, but I think that's what you're after...

update: this has a problem because of the .+.


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s''limp';@p=split '!','n!h!p!';s,m,s,;$s=y;$c=slice @p1;so brutally;d;$n=reverse;$c=$s**$#p;print(''.$c^chop($n))while($c/=$#p)>=1;

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Re^2: Regexp: Match anything except a certain word
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 21, 2006 at 17:15 UTC

    That's not how you use the negative lookahead. It won't work. For example,

    '<a href="..." target="...">' =~ / <a # Matches '<a'. .+? # Matches ' '. (?!target) # Matches. (/\Gtarget/ doesn't match.) .+? # Matches 'href="..." target="..."'. > # Matches '>'. /isx;
    and
    '<a target="..." href="...">' =~ / <a # Matches '<a'. .+? # Matches ' t'. (?!target) # Matches. (/\Gtarget/ doesn't match.) .+? # Matches 'arget="..." href="..."'. > # Matches '>'. /isx;

    The common use of a negative lookahead is

    /(?:(?!$re).)*/

    See my earlier post for the fix.