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Re^2: Pattern matching when there are exception stringsby tomazos (Deacon) |
on Sep 21, 2005 at 14:16 UTC ( [id://493804]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Excuse me for being thick but suppose you had the exceptions '1ALPHA2' and '3ALPHA4'. Wouldn't $total_rx also exclude '3ALPHA2' and '1ALPHA4'? :) Or am I missing something?
Having said that I still think that lookahead and lookbehind are the best bet. Just join them like this instead:
(untested) Or something like that. Update: Dooh. That doesn't work. Need an "and" match not an "or" match. Hmmmm... back to the drawing board. Update: Okay, I've got it... Can you nest lookaheads and lookbehinds? If so this should work:
This has a zero-width assertion followed by ALPHA. The zero-width assertion is a lookahead exclude (ie looking ahead, that this is not true) What it is looking ahead to see is one of multiple patterns. Each pattern contains an ALPHA with a lookahead and behind for an excluded suffix and prefix pair. If one of these matches, we have an excluded alpha - so we exclude this match (the original zero-width assertion). So it says: match an ALPHA that does not have an excluded prefix/suffix. -Andrew.
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