Re^2: negative regex without !~

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There are many perl CGI and Tk programs that ask a user to enter regular expressions. If you are entering a regular expression in an entry box you typically cannot put '!~' on the front of it to negate it. I don't know if this is the kind of thing the original poster is talking about, but it seems like a very possible scenario

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Re^3: negative regex without !~ by SpanishInquisition (Pilgrim) on Oct 11, 2004 at 16:32 UTC
File::Repl has a function that takes a qr (or a string that will be eval'ed as a regex), for instance. If I want to make a zip of a directory containing all files that are not ending in ".obj" and also do not contain the string "super-secret-gamma-ray-gun", I can't do that with File::Repl and I have to post-match.	[reply]

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