in reply to Re: negative regex without !~
in thread negative regex without !~
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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